kanji
Meanings
noun
- The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
- Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
noun
- A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
- Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
- Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.
name
- Alternative letter-case form of kanji.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC xanH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC dziH, “[written] character”) (Compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự, Hokkien 漢字 /汉字 (hàn-jī / hàn-lī), Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶)). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.
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