Kanji (寛治) was a Japanese era (年号, nengō, "year name") after Ōtoku and before Kahō. This period spanned the years from April 1087 through December 1094...
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The kyōiku kanji (教育漢字, literally "education kanji"), sometimes called the 1,026 kanji Japanese elementary school students should learn from first through...
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The jōyō kanji (常用漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [dʑoːjoːkaꜜɲdʑi], lit. "regular-use kanji") system of representing written Japanese currently consists of...
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Kanji (漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [kaɲdʑi]) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. They...
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Congee or kanji, a semi-liquid food made from rice Kanji (drink), an Indian drink prepared for the Holi festival Kanji (era), a Japanese era name (1087–1094)...
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Japanese writing system (section Kanji)
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists...
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Shinjitai (redirect from Simplified kanji)
character form") are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946. Some of the new forms found in...
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of Reiwa's kanji, 令 and 和, into a single character; similar code points exist for earlier era names, including Shōwa (U+337C ㍼ SQUARE ERA NAME SYOUWA)...
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well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana...
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kanji of the year (今年の漢字, Kotoshi no kanji) is a character chosen by the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society (財団法人日本漢字能力検定協会, Zaidan hōjin Nihon Kanji...
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Kokuji (redirect from Wasei kanji)
Japanese, kokuji (国字, "national characters") or wasei kanji (和製漢字, "Japanese-made kanji") are kanji created in Japan rather than borrowed from China. Like...
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Heisei era. Emperor Hirohito was served by total of 33 prime ministers, beginning with Wakatsuki Reijiro and ending with Noboru Takeshita. The two kanji characters...
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Chichibu. Most nengō are composed of two kanji, except for a short time during the Nara period when four-kanji names were sometimes adopted to follow the...
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their status in an era when commoners were not allowed surnames. Examples include Atō, Andō, Itō (although a different final kanji is also common), Udō...
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era and the following militaristic-driven first part of the Shōwa era. The two kanji characters in Taishō (大正) were from a passage of the Classical Chinese...
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syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana...
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Edo period (redirect from Edo era)
Shinto religion were alive, samurai, Buddhist monks were also there. Beyond kanji (Chinese characters), the Confucian classics, calligraphy, basic arithmetics...
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On'yomi (category Kanji)
Sino-Japanese reading, is the reading of a kanji based on the historical Chinese pronunciation of the character. A single kanji might have multiple on'yomi pronunciations...
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abolition of kanji and exclusive use of rōmaji were considered. The jōyō kanji ("common use kanji"), originally called tōyō kanji (kanji for general use)...
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Antonio Inoki (redirect from Kanji Inoki)
Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木, Antonio Inoki, born Kanji Inoki (Japanese: 猪木寛至, Hepburn: Inoki Kanji) and later Muhammad Hussain Inoki (Arabic: محمد حسين اينوكي...
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determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced...
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JIS X 0208 (redirect from DEC Kanji)
coded KANJI sets for information interchange (7ビット及び8ビットの2バイト情報交換用符号化漢字集合, Nana-Bitto Oyobi Hachi-Bitto no Ni-Baito Jōhō Kōkan'yō Fugōka Kanji Shūgō)...
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Daiji may refer to: Daiji (era), Japanese era name Daiji, a set of kanji for numerals used in legal and financial documents to prevent forgeries Daiji...
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called moras, rather than morphemes. Prior to the Meiji era (1868–1912), writers used certain kanji to represent their sound values instead, in a system...
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Ryō (category Kanji)
sinogram, 両 is one of the kyōiku kanji, a jōyō kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a third-grade kanji and also means “both”. Look up 両...
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Jōmon period (redirect from Jomon Era)
Society. OKimori Takuya "日本の漢字1600年の歴史 (1600 years of history in Japanese Kanji)" "ベレ出版". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2012-10-23...
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Regnal year (redirect from Era name)
began. Regnal years are "finite era names", contrary to "infinite era names" such as Christian era, Jimmu era, Juche era, and so on. In ancient times, calendars...
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corresponds to one sound or whole syllable in the Japanese language, unlike kanji regular script, which corresponds to a meaning. Apart from the five vowels...
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represented by several more-or-less interchangeable kanji, or different cursive styles of the same kanji. However, the 1900 script reform determined that...
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are written in kanji. Modern Chinese loanwords are generally considered gairaigo and written in katakana, or sometimes written in kanji (either with the...
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