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
- —十字ねじcross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
- —御す文字sushi
- —蟹行文字cross-wise writing; alphabet usually written horizontally
- —大和文字Japanese syllabary symbols; kana
- —契丹文字Khitan script
- —女真文字Jurchen script
- —形象文字hieroglyph
- —再読文字single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts
- —声音文字phonetic symbol; phonogram
- —西夏文字Tangut script
- —蝌蚪文字ancient seal-script character
- —鏡映文字mirror writing; mirrored script
- —北十字星Northern Cross (asterism)
- —学習漢字the 1,026 kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools
- —代用漢字substitute kanji; jōyō kanji used in place of a non-jōyō kanji
- —満州文字Manchu script
- —読字障害dyslexia; paralexia; reading disorder
- —非漢字圏countries that do not use Chinese characters in their writing; non-kanji countries
- —飾り文字ornamental writing (esp. initial letters); decorative lettering; fancy script
- —文字読みreading classical Chinese aloud without trying to understand the meaning; reading a kanji compound using the Japanese pronunciation of each of its characters