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English

Etymology 1

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, “ character”) (compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.

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Noun

kanji (countable and uncountable, plural kanji or kanjis)

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  1. (uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
    Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
    These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation.
    Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script.
  2. Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
    I know about a thousand kanji.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

Noun

kanji (uncountable)

  1. A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
  2. Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
  3. Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.

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French

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Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)

  1. kanji

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Malay kanji, from Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci), from Sanskrit काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
  • Hyphenation: kan‧ji

Noun

kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)

  1. tapioca
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
  • Hyphenation: kan‧ji

Adjective

kanji

  1. give up.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “ character”) (compare Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì), Min Nan 漢字／汉字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī), and Cantonese 漢字／汉字 (hon3 zi6)). Doublet of hanja, hanzi, and honji.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kan.d͡ʒi/
  • Hyphenation: kan‧ji

Noun

kanji (first-person possessive kanjiku, second-person possessive kanjimu, third-person possessive kanjinya)

  1. Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage.
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Japanese

Romanization

kanji

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かんじ

Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

kanji (Jawi spelling کنجي, plural kanji-kanji, informal 1st possessive kanjiku, 2nd possessive kanjimu, 3rd possessive kanjinya)

  1. starch

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Polish

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kanji

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English kanji.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkan.d͡ʑi/, /ˈkan.d͡ʐi/
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  • Rhymes: -and͡ʑi
  • Syllabification: kan‧ji

Noun

kanji n (indeclinable)

  1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)
    Coordinate terms: hiragana, katakana

Further reading

  • kanji in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃ˈʒi/, (careful pronunciation) /kɐ̃ˈd͡ʒi/

Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)

  1. kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

Spanish

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Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)

  1. kanji
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