The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Six research institutes were involved in developing the Multi-Database Search System for Historical Chinese Characters, the first of its kind that collates old kanji from various regions and ...

TOKYO -- Names written in Chinese characters commonly read as "Haruto" or "Hinato" and a single-kanji name usually pronounced as "Tsumugi" were the most popular names given to boys and girls ...

KYOTO--“Zei,” or tax, was selected as the kanji character of 2023, reflecting heated political debate over tax policies. The Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on Dec.