JapanDict: Japanese Dictionary
www.japandict.com › kanjiKanji is a form of the Japanese writing taken from the Chinese characters. Each kanji represents an idea, such as an object, thing or quality. There are more than 50,000 characters, but only 2,136 are considered Jōyō kanji (commonly used kanji) and taught at school.
Kanji - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KanjiVerkkoSince kanji are essentially Chinese hanzi used to write Japanese, the majority of characters used in modern Japanese still retain their Chinese meaning, physical resemblance with some of their modern traditional …