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
- —合字ligature
- —角字style of lettering consisting of thick vertical and horizontal lines, often used in seals, crests, etc.; printed style (of writing Chinese characters; as opposed to cursive style); kanji (as opposed to kana)
- —洋字characters used by Western civilization (esp. the Latin alphabet)
- —借字kanji used for sound equivalence
- —無字the one-character reply ("no") offered by Zhaozhou to the question "Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
- —字牌honor tiles
- —異字different character; other character; variant character; different written form of a character
- —宝字kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin)
- —内字internal character
- —通字distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage
- —難字difficult character; complicated kanji
- —書字written form
- —斜字oblique letter; slanting character
- —丸字rounded handwriting
- —字種character class (e.g. distinct kanji character and its alternative written forms)
- —字眼decisive character (Chinese poetry)
- —落字omitted character; omitted letter
- —字彙dictionary of Chinese characters
- —実字kanji character with a concrete meaning
- —助字auxiliary character (in kanbun)