It's one of the earliest known ceramics featuring Kanji characters ever found in Japan, according to the Asahi Shimbun. Kanji characters are originally Chinese.

In response to a question on whether “unlisted kanji,” or Chinese characters not included in “joyo kanji (kanji list for daily use designated by the government), ”should be used in ...

The Japanese writing system is made up of Kanji (Chinese characters), Hirigana, and Katakana.

The kanji for “faith” or “forever” are popular requests, she says. The kanji trend doesn’t impress those who speak or read Japanese or Chinese.

More often than not most Japanese learners struggle with kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese writing). There are hundreds of kanji characters that change their meaning based on how they are ...

Learning kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese) is essential to gaining fluency in Japanese. It’s often introduced after you’ve mastered hiragana and katakana (the Japanese phonetic alphabet). In ...

TOKYO, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese character or kanji "zei," which means tax, was chosen as kanji of the year that best summarizes the year's national mood in Japan, a Kyoto-based organization ...

The Kan Cabinet announced Tuesday a new list of joyo kanji (Chinese characters in common use). This represents the third great reform in Japan's postwar kanji policy. The list serves as a ...

Seihan Mori, chief priest of Kyoto's iconic Kiyomizu Temple, writes "mitsu" meaning "close" or "crowded" as the kanji character of the year in the city's Higashiyama Ward on Dec. 14, 2020. The ...

The second part of the essay looks at problems concerning screen subtitles. To display images, television system uses scanning lines, which actually serve as a restriction that makes kanji with ...