kanji

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• /ˈkænd͡ʒi/
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• Australian: /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/
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• US: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
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• rhymes with -ændʒi
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• homophone: congee (US)
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 N JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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 (hon3 zi6)). Doublet of hanja and Hanzi.

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كَانْجِي (kānjī) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Arabic: طَابِع يَابَانِيّ (ṭābiʕ yābāniyy) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Arabic: حَرْف يَابَانِيّ (ḥarf yābāniyy) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Armenian: կանձի — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Belarusian: кандзі́ (kandzí) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Bengali: জাপানী হরফ (japanī hôrôf) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Bengali: কাঞ্জি — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Bulgarian: канджи (kandži) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Chinese Mandarin: 日本漢字 /日本汉字 (Rìběn hànzì) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Chinese Mandarin: 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Czech: kandži — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Dutch: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Finnish: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• French: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Georgian: ყანჯი (q̇anǯi) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• German: Kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• German: japanisches Zeichen — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Greek: κάντζι (kántzi) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Hebrew: קאנג׳י — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Hindi: कानजी (kānjī) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Hungarian: kandzsi — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Indonesian: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Indonesian: honji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Irish: Ceansaí — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Italian: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Japanese: 漢字 — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Japanese: 日本における漢字 — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Khmer: កាន់ជិ (kanciʼ) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Korean: 한자 — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Korean: 일문 한자 (ilmun hanja) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Korean: 일본어(日本語)의 한자 (ilboneo-ui hanja) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Macedonian: канџи́ (kandží) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Malay: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Marathi: कान्जी (kānjī) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Mongolian: канжи (kanži) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Persian: کانجی (kânji) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Polish: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Portuguese: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Punjabi: ਕਾਂਜੀ (kāñjī) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Punjabi: کانجی (kānjī) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Russian: кандзи́ (kandzí) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Russian: япо́нский иеро́глиф (japónskij ijeróglif) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Serbo-Croatian: канђи — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Serbo-Croatian: kanđi — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Serbo-Croatian: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Slovak: kandži — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Spanish: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Swahili: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Swedish: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Thai: คันจิ (kan-jì) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Turkish: kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Ukrainian: кандзі́ (kandzí) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Urdu: کانجی (kānjī) — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Vietnamese: chữ kanji — Chinese characters in Japanese context
• Vietnamese: chữ Nhật — Chinese characters in Japanese context