Kanji
adopted logographic Chinese characters used in the modern Japanese writing system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kanji (漢字) is one of the three forms of Japanese writing. A kanji is an ideogram: that is, a type of simple picture. These are made to show a word's meaning. It is a symbol of an idea such as an object, thing or quality.
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Kanji ideograms (or “characters”) were taken from Chinese characters,[1] and many changed over time. The word “kanji” means “Han characters” (i.e. “Chinese characters”).[2]