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 ...

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

Characters did not have voices." Not only this, but Japanese "kanji fonts weren't supported," with katakana characters used ...

The Japanese writing system is made up of Kanji (Chinese characters), Hirigana, and Katakana. Without going into it too much, just know that Hirigana and Katakana are collectively known as the ...

Because there are at least two possible readings for every kanji character, it is possible for two-character first names to have a wide range of possible readings. And some Japanese have let ...

For illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo, the hiragana lettering system sparked a playful, ongoing series of embroideries ...

“‘Kanji’ is actually the Chinese characters in the Japanese language. And my father is Japanese. We lived in Japan,” said Kim McIntyre, Kanji’s owner/handler. “This dog is a true chara ...

KYOTO—The character “kin,” meaning "gold" or "money," was selected as the kanji of the year, reflecting the strong showing of Japanese athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris ...