The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Parents will not be able to give any reading they want to the kanji characters they use in naming children under legislation the government plans to enact in fiscal 2024. For example, any reading ...

The Japanese writing system is made up of Kanji (Chinese characters), Hirigana, and Katakana. Without going into it too much, just know that Hirigana and Katakana are collectively known as the ...

Struggling with memory retention can be frustrating, but the Japanese have developed powerful techniques that can help even ...

Japanese kanji with the tree radical, written as 木, tend to focus on characters with a strong semantic connection to trees and wood. Japanese elementary school students learn the kanji 木 ...

KYOTO--“Zei,” or tax, was selected as the kanji character of 2023, reflecting heated political debate over tax policies. The Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on ...