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Japanese writing using Chinese characters
Answer for the clue "Japanese writing using Chinese characters ", 5 letters:
kanji
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Word definitions for kanji in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kanji can refer to any of the following: Kanji , the Japanese writing system Chinese character , a general discussion of Chinese characters which are also used in other East Asian languages Kanji bush , an Australian shrub Kanji (drink) , an Indian drink ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Chinese ideographs that make up the bulk of Japanese writing," 1920, from Japanese kan "Chinese" + ji "letter, character."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the Chinese characters as used in the Japanese language.
Usage examples of kanji.
It was Japanese portable with a keyboard the length of a cricket bat, a complex mess of ASCII, kanji, katakana, hiragana and arcane function keys.
A word would be typed in Hiragana, the fifty-one-letter Japanese phonetic alphabet, and on the screen would appear the corresponding Chinese ideogram in Kanji.
Each page is a grid, a table with hiragana or katakana or kanji in one box, a group of digits or Romanji in another box, and the pages all cross-referenced to other pages in a scheme only a cryptographer could love.