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 ...

Some of the search results for the kanji “kuni” (state) on a newly released database site show many different characters with the same meaning.

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 ...