Finnish-English translations for kanji

• kanji
  Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana.
  These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eTk6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&dq=%22kanji+is+the+typical+representation%22]
  Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ip5cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA226&dq=%22kanji%22]

Definition of kanji

• kirjoitusjärjestelmä, jossa japanin kieltä kirjoitetaan kiinalaisperäisiä kirjoitusmerkkejä käyttäen

Related words

• hiragana
• katakana