Kanji are symbols that represent words in Japanese. They can stand alone, or they can combine with other kanji or kana to create more words and ideas. They are descended from Chinese characters, which ...

SINCE becoming an Irish citizen on Valentine’s Day this year, an occasion reported by this paper, Kazuko Uchida from Yokohama ...

Japan has introduced new rules to regulate how children’s names written in Chinese characters, kanji, are pronounced. Kanji is one of the three core writing systems in Japanese, alongside ...

These four kanji compounds, excluding the name of places, often embody idiomatic phrases rooted in historical Japanese context. Like English idioms, these compounds compress profound meanings into ...

Because few parents knew how to write kanji, much less explain which symbols to use in a child’s name, the documentation was often made in katakana. Now, some might wonder why hiragana was not used in ...