Kanji

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

Kanji
Type	Logographic
Languages	Old Japanese, Japanese
Parent systems	Oracle Bone Script Seal Script Clerical Script Kaishu Kanji
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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Chinese characters

Scripts
Precursors Oracle bone script Bronze script Seal script large small Clerical script Cursive script Regular script Semi-cursive script
Type styles
Imitation Song Ming Sans-serif
Properties
Strokes Stroke order Radicals Classification Section headers
Variants
Standards on character forms
Kangxi Dictionary form Xin Zixing Commonly Used Characters Standard Form of National Characters List of Forms of Frequently Used Characters
Standards on grapheme usage
Graphemic variants Hanyu Tongyong Zi Hanyu Changyong Zi Tōyō kanji Jōyō kanji
Reforms
Chinese traditional simplified simplified, 2nd round debate Japanese old new Ryakuji Korean Yakja Singaporean jiăntǐzì biǎo
Sinoxenic usage
Kanji Hanja Hán tự
Homographs
Literary and colloquial readings
Derivatives
Kokuji Korean hanja Chữ Nôm Zetian characters Nü Shu Idu Kana (Man'yōgana) Bopomofo Sawndip Khitan large script Khitan small script Jurchen Tangut