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
- —当字kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning; phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character; ateji; kanji used for their meaning, irrespective of reading
- —卍字swastika (esp. counterclockwise form as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion; swastika-shaped family crest
- —万字swastika (esp. counterclockwise form as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion; swastika-shaped family crest
- —踊字iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark
- —躍字iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); ditto mark
- —倭字native Japanese characters (i.e. hiragana and katakana); kana; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji
- —字詰number of characters per line, page, etc.
- —置字kanji left unpronounced when reading kanbun in Japanese; characters representing adverbs, conjunctions, etc. used in a letter
- —切字punctuation words in haiku, renga, etc. such as "ya", "kana", "keri", etc.
- —作字made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation; arranging a group of things or people to form a character; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji
- —削字designing a font; creating a new character not currently available
- —植字typesetting; printing type
- —訛字variant kanji form; unorthodox kanji form; incorrect kanji form
- —癖字characters that are difficult to read; poor handwriting
- —羅馬字Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet; romaji; romanized Japanese; system of transliterating Japanese into the Latin alphabet
- —うそ字incorrectly written character; kanji written with the wrong strokes; wrongly used kanji
- —舊字體old character form; kyūjitai; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946
- —字引きdictionary
- —文字典dictionary of Chinese characters; kanji dictionary
- —添え字subscript; superscript; index