Kanji (漢字; listen) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters (hanzi) that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana (ひらがな, 平仮名), katakana (カタカナ, 片仮名), Hindu numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet. The Japanese term kanji (漢字) for the Chinese characters literally means "Han characters" and is the same written term in the Chinese language to refer to the character writing system hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字).
Japanese writing
Kanji
Kana
- Hiragana
- Katakana
- Hentaigana
- Man'yōgana
- Sogana
Uses
- Furigana
- Okurigana
Braille
Rōmaji
- Hepburn (colloquial)
- Kunrei (ISO)
- Nihon (ISO translit.)
- JSL (transliteration)
- Wāpuro (keyboard)
Punctuation
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| Type | Logographic |
| Languages | Old Japanese, Japanese |
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| Sister systems | Hanja, Zhuyin, Simplified Chinese, Chu Nom, Khitan script, Jurchen script |
| ISO 15924 | Hani, 500 |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Unicode alias | Han |
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Read more about Kanji: History, Local Developments and Divergences From Chinese, Readings, Total Number of Kanji, Orthographic Reform and Lists of Kanji, Types of Kanji: By Category, Related Symbols, Radical-and-stroke Sorting, Kanji Education