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 ...

The reading of the kanji used for the first name of Hayato Ikeda, who was prime minister in the 1960s, was not generally recognized at that time. But the reading came to be accepted widely because ...

Entering certain kanji on the site will simultaneously display variant and simplified characters written on ancient wooden tablets and documents as well as letters from the Earlier Han Dynasty ...