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
- —活字離れaliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature
- —空白文字space character; whitespace character; blank character
- —相撲文字writing style used to write the rankings
- —不立文字Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism)
- —異字同訓(words with) different kanji but the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning)
- —一字一字letter by letter; character by character
- —一字半句a single word; (not even) a word; (not even) a syllable
- —永字八法Eight Principles of Yong; principles for writing the eight basic brush strokes in Chinese characters
- —活字中毒addiction to the printed word; addiction to reading; reading addict; obsessive reader
- —甲骨文字oracle bone script
- —苗字帯刀right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)
- —四文字語four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
- —四字成句Chinese four-character phrase or idiomatic expression
- —エス字型S-shape
- —漢字試験kanji test; test of kanji skills
- —漢字検定kanji aptitude test (esp. the Kanji Kentei); The Japan Kanji Aptitude Test
- —御目文字personal meeting (esp. used by females)
- —外字新聞foreign-language newspaper
- —天平宝字Tenpyō-hōji era (757.8.18-765.1.7)
- —文字装飾text decoration (e.g. character and font effects, underline, etc.)