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kanji

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈkænd͡ʒi/
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/ˈkænd͡ʒi/ · /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/ · /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/ (US)

Definition of kanji

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
    “Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
    “Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
    “I know about a thousand kanji.”
  3. (uncountable)A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc.
  4. (uncountable)Drink made from sugarcane vinegar.
  5. (uncountable)Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour.

name

  1. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of kanji.

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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.

Anagrams of kanji

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Words you can make from kanji

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4-letter words

3 words

3-letter words

6 words

2-letter words

6 words

Hooks

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