Chinese

Noun

漢字

1. Chinese character; Han character; hanzi; kanji (Japanese); hanja (Korean); Hán tự/Han tu (Vietnamese)

Synonyms

• 國字／国字 (guózì)
• 中國字／中国字 (Zhōngguózì)
• (Cantonese) 唐字 (tong4 zi6)

See also

• 繁體字／繁体字 (fántǐzì)
• 簡體字／简体字 (jiǎntǐzì)

Descendants

Others:

• English: hanzi
• Mongolian: ханз ‎(hanz)
• Russian: ханьцзы́ ‎(xanʹczý)
• Thai: ฮั่นจื้อ ‎(hân-jʉ̂ʉ)

Japanese

漢字 (kanji): Chinese characters, showing the traditional Chinese script on the left, and simplified on the right.

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 漢字 ‎(hɑn^H d͡zɨ^H, literally “Han Chinese + character”). Compare modern Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) かんじ [kàńjí] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠nd͡ʑi]

Noun

漢字 ‎(hiragana かんじ, romaji kanji)

1. kanji

   Literally meaning “Chinese characters”, kanji are ideographic or logographic characters used in Japan, mostly borrowed directly from Chinese. Kanji include some characters created in Japan from originally Chinese elements, and other characters that were modified over time into distinctly Japanese forms. Contrast with 仮名 ‎(kana), uniquely Japanese phonetic characters derived either from cursive forms of kanji (平仮名 ‎(hiragana)) or from specific parts of kanji (片仮名 ‎(katakana)).

Synonyms

See also

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0

Korean

Noun

漢字 • ‎(hanja) ‎(hangeul 한자)

1. Hanja form^? of 한자, “Chinese characters, hanja”.

Okinawan

Etymology

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as かんじ ‎(kanji).^[1]

Noun

漢字 ‎(hiragana かんじ, romaji kanji)

1. Chinese character

References

1. ↑ 1896: 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”). In Japanese. http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/992016/28

Vietnamese

Noun

漢字

1. Hán tự form of Hán tự, “Chinese character”