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Symbols in written Japanese
Answer for the clue "Symbols in written Japanese ", 5 letters:
kanji
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Word definitions for kanji in dictionaries
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."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
was a after Ōtoku and before Kahō . This period spanned the years from April 1087 through December 1094. The reigning emperor was .
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.