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 ...

The character for tax in Japanese has been selected as the best kanji for a year in which a tax increase pushed the economy into recession and a tax postponement triggered Sunday's early general ...

Archaeologists working on a Japanese island discovered an ancient shard of earthenware pottery featuring Kanji, the logographic characters that comprise the Japanese system of writing.

During their six years in elementary school, Japanese children learn over 1,000 kanji. In this time, they greatly increase their reading sophistication, moving from picture books to short novels ...

Japanese tattoos don't always mean what their wearers think they doStop by any tattoo shop, and there's a good chance you'll see someone getting a kanji character inked onto his or her skin.Kanji ...

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

Learn to read and understand "Kanji," Japanese ideographic characters. Japan's public broadcaster NHK provides these reliable Japanese lessons.

TOKYO >> The character “rei” — as used in the era name of Reiwa, which has been translated to mean “beautiful harmony” — was chosen as kanji of the year, the Japan Kanji Aptitude ...

The Japanese kanji "kizuna", meaning bonds or connections between people, comes top of a public poll for the character that best sums up 2011.

Learn to read and understand "Kanji," Japanese ideographic characters. Japan's public broadcaster NHK provides these reliable Japanese lessons.