漢字

Noun

 * 1) Chinese character; Han character; hanzi

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Etymology
From compound. Compare modern 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) kanji

Usage notes
The term literally means “Chinese characters”, and refers broadly to any such ideographic or logographic character originating in written Chinese, or created anew along similar lines. This latter category includes some characters created in Japan from originally Chinese elements and called, and other characters that were modified over time into distinctly Japanese forms and called. Contrast with, uniquely Japanese phonetic characters derived either from cursive forms of kanji (the ) or from shorthand that abbreviated characters to use just specific parts of the original kanji (the ).

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  kanji; Chinese character