kanji

human language, character /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese

"kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter

of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The

Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. Kanji

constitute a part of the writing system used to represent

the Japanese language in written, printed and displayed form.

The term is also used for the collection of all kanji

letters.

US-ASCII doesn't include kanji characters, but some

character encodings, including Unicode, do.

The Japanese writing system also uses hiragana, katakana, and

sometimes romaji (Roman alphabet letters). These characters

are distinct from, though commonly used in combination with,

kanji. Furigana are also added sometimes.

(2000-12-30)