kanji
Japanese borrowed characters
Kanji are the Chinese characters used in Japanese writing, alongside the phonetic hiragana and katakana scripts.
Each kanji represents a meaning rather than a sound, so the same character may have multiple pronunciations depending on context.
Japanese literacy requires learning roughly two thousand kanji: I'm still studying kanji for the proficiency test.
Symbol representing entire word
- ideographSymbol representing meaning directly
- pictogramSymbol using visual likeness
- hanziChinese logographic symbols
- hieroglyphicsSymbolic picture-based writing
cuneiform · petroglyph · meaning · semantic · representation · signifier · denotation · connotation
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- radicalRoot-indicating symbol
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
inkstone · penmanship · handwriting · script · glyph · orthography · typeface · font
Japanese phonetic alphabet
- romajiJapanese in Latin letters
- JapaneseOf or from Nippon
- JapanEast Asian archipelago nation
- KyotoJapan's former imperial seat
Tokyo · Nippon · sensei · anime · manga · haiku · kimono · zen
Committing information to recall
- flashcardLearning aid with prompt and answer
- mnemonicTechnique for retention
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- readingInterpreting written text
dictionary · textbook · practice · repetition · difficulty · complexity · mastery · proficiency
logogram
Symbol representing entire word
- ideographSymbol representing meaning directly
- pictogramSymbol using visual likeness
- hanziChinese logographic symbols
hieroglyphics · cuneiform · petroglyph · meaning · semantic · representation · signifier · denotation · connotation
stroke
Sudden brain blood blockage
- radicalRoot-indicating symbol
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- calligraphyOrnamental handwriting art
brushwork · inkstone · penmanship · handwriting · script · glyph · orthography · typeface · font · typeset
hiragana
Japanese phonetic alphabet
Kyoto · Tokyo · Nippon · sensei · anime · manga · haiku · kimono · zen · samurai
memorization
Committing information to recall
- flashcardLearning aid with prompt and answer
- mnemonicTechnique for retention
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
reading · dictionary · textbook · practice · repetition · difficulty · complexity · mastery · proficiency · literacy
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
- JapanTokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Mount Fuji, Hokkaido
- Japanese culturesamurai, kabuki, sumo, origami, tea ceremony
- symbolssymbols, runes, symbol, asterisks, national symbol
- written symbolsletters, alphabets, punctuation, commas, periods
- Japanesehiragana, particles, conjugation, romaji, honorifics
- kanji scriptJapanese logographic writing system