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Japanese ideograms
Answer for the clue "Japanese ideograms ", 5 letters:
kanji
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Word definitions for kanji in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the Chinese characters as used in the Japanese language.
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."
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.