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Kanji terminology
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This article introduces the Japanese words for key terms related to kanji and kanji usage. Terms are listed in あかさ (gojūon) order.
かんじ 漢字 | Kanji - literally, a Chinese character. In Chinese, the same term is read/pronounced Hanzi. |
かんたいじ 簡体字 | A simplified modern form of a kanji. This term is the general term; In Japan, simplified kanji are more commonly known as 新字体 |
きゅうじたい 旧字体 | A traditional (as opposed to simplified) form of a kanji. |
ごじゅうおん 五十音 | The gojūon (fifty sounds) is an ordering system for the sounds (phonemes) of Japanese. It is typically used to order hiragana and katakana. The order is sometimes casually referred to as あかさ order. |
しんじたい 新字体 | Japanese modern (typically simplified) forms of traditional kanji. |
じんめいよう 人名用 | The Jinmeiyō kanji are a set of 862 kanji allowed for use in names, but not designated part of the Jōyō kanji. For a full list, see our Jinmeiyō collection. |
じょうよう 常用 | The Jōyō kanji are the 2136 'daily use' kanji designated by the Japanese government for use in official documents. Generally Japanese media also restrict kanji usage to kanji in the Jōyō set, together with Jinmeiyō for names. For a full list, see our Jōyō collection. |
はんたいじ 繁体字 | A traditional form of a kanji (in contrast to a simplified form). In Japanese, traditional forms are usually known as 旧字体 to contrast with modern 新字体. |
ひょうがいじ 表外字 | Hyōgaiji, literally ('characters outside the chart') refers to all kanji which are not Jōyō or Jinmeiyō. By some estimates there are as many as 50,000 characters, including many variants and unused characters. |
ぶしゅ 部首 | A kanji's radical - one of the 214 key components used to identify the kanji in standard dictionaries. The Japanese radicals are based on the こうき 康熙 ぶしゅ 部首 , known in English as the Kangxi radicals, after the first dictionary in which they were compiled. |
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