# kanji
## 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, “[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 (hon$^3$ zi$^6$)). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.

#### Alternative forms

* Kanji

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: kănji, IPA: /ˈkænd͡ʒi/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
* Rhymes: -ændʒi
* Homophone: congee (US)

#### Noun

kanji (countable and uncountable, plural kanji or kanjis)
* (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.
* Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
    I know about a thousand kanji.

##### Derived terms

* jōyō kanji

##### Related terms

* Hanzi (Chinese)
* hanja (Korean)
* Hán tự (Vietnamese)

##### See also

* kana (仮名)
* hiragana (平仮名)
* katakana (片仮名)
* kyūjitai (旧字体)
* romaji (ローマ字)
* shinjitai (新字体)
* Appendix:Jōyō kanji by reading

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

#### Noun

kanji (uncountable)
* 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.

### Anagrams

* Kajin

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kan.ʒi/
** Audio:(file)
* IPA: /kɑ̃n.ʒi/
** Audio:(file)
* IPA: /kɑ̃.ʒi/
** Audio:(file)

### Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)
* kanji

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kan.d͡ʒi/
* Hyphenation: kan‧ji

#### Noun

kanji (uncountable)
* tapioca
    Synonym: tapioka

### Etymology 2

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#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kan.d͡ʒi/
* Hyphenation: kan‧ji

#### Adjective

kanji
* 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, “[written] character”) (compare Mandarin 漢字 / 汉字 (hànzì), Min Nan 漢字 / 汉字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī), and Cantonese 漢字 / 汉字 (hon$^3$ zi$^6$)). Doublet of hanja, hanzi, and honji.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kan.d͡ʒi/
* Hyphenation: kan‧ji

#### Noun

kanji (uncountable)
* Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage

##### Related terms

* honji
* hanzi

### Further reading

* “kanji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

kanji
* Rōmaji transcription of かんじ

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Malaysia):(file)

### Noun

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

### Further reading

* “kanji” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English kanji.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkan.d͡ʑi/, /ˈkan.d͡ʐi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -and͡ʑi, -and͡ʐi
* Syllabification: kan‧ji

### Noun

kanji n (indeclinable)
* 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: /kɐ̃ˈʒi/, (careful pronunciation) /kɐ̃ˈd͡ʒi/

### Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)
* kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)

## Spanish
### Noun

kanji m (plural kanjis)
* kanji