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
- —イ文字Yi script (used to write the Yi languages)
- —文字組character layout; typesetting
- —カナ文字the Japanese syllabary symbols
- —かな文字the Japanese syllabary symbols
- —康熙字典Kangxi dictionary; Chinese dictionary of 1716, which popularized the system of 214 radicals
- —４字熟語four-character compound word (esp. idiomatic)
- —八字ひげfinely trimmed moustache
- —漢和字典dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary
- —カギ十字swastika (in its clockwise form, esp. as a Nazi symbol)
- —かぎ十字swastika (in its clockwise form, esp. as a Nazi symbol)
- —つづり字spelling
- —名字帯刀right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)
- —お目文字personal meeting (esp. used by females)
- —南十字座Crux (constellation)
- —ひと文字one (written) character; Welsh onion; spring onion
- —文字言葉word created by retaining the first syllable (or two) of a word and suffixing it with the word "moji"
- —充塡文字fill character
- —十字ネジcross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
- —十字螺子cross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
- —つづけ字cursive handwriting; connected characters; running characters