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Kanji is the Japanese word for chinese characters, literally. "kan" 漢 meaning Sino/China and "ji" 字, character/letter/word. It's also what they use to describe the chinese characters they adopted into their syllabary. These are chinese characters, some of which have changed within Japanese over time to become uniquely Japanese. They can have their own unique Japanese sounds associated with them (kun-yomi, or Japanese reading) but still retain japanese-ified (technical term) chinese sounds (on-yomi, or Chinese reading).

Ex. 人 = ひと, hito (kun-yomi); じん, jin (on-yomi) -- there are other pronunciations, but I'm only listing these as an example.

2 years ago
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Yes and no.

Kanji is the Japanese word for chinese characters, literally. "kan" 漢 meaning Sino/China and "ji" 字, character/letter/word. It's also what they use to describe the chinese characters they adopted into their syllabary. These are chinese characters, some of which have changed, within Japanese over time to become uniquely Japanese. They can have their own unique Japanese sounds associated with them (kun-yomi, or Japanese reading) but still retain japanese-ified (technical term) chinese sounds (on-yomi, or Chinese reading).

Ex. 人 = ひと, hito (kun-yomi); じん, jin (on-yomi) -- there are other pronunciations, but I'm only listing these as an example.

2 years ago
1 score