Kanji1 / 6
字 kanji
character, letter, word, section of village
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ジ
Kun readings
あざあざな-な
Words with 字
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —尻文字writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips)
- —心字池lake shaped like the kanji "heart" character (traditional Japanese gardens)
- —右万字right-facing swastika; clockwise swastika
- —左万字left-facing swastika; counterclockwise swastika
- —黒字化moving into the black; becoming profitable
- —文字絵picture formed from letters; painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
- —大赤字being greatly in the red; taking a big loss; heavy deficit
- —簡化字simplified Chinese character
- —正体字traditional Chinese character; unsimplified Chinese character
- —正の字unit of five (in tallies, etc.)
- —誤字るto make a typo; to type the wrong character
- —邦字紙Japanese-language newspaper (printed outside Japan)
- —活字化putting into print; publishing; converting into digital text (e.g. speech, handwriting)
- —植え字typesetting; printing type
- —代用字substitute kanji; jōyō kanji used in place of a non-jōyō kanji
- —筆文字character written by brush; brush-stroke character
- —送り字iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark
- —字上符superscript diacritics; diacritical marks above letters
- —組文字block of multiple characters arranged in a space equivalent to that of a single character
- —字消しeraser