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 kanji for gold (金 kin) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said Thursday.

Six research institutes were involved in developing the Multi-Database Search System for Historical Chinese Characters, the first of its kind that collates old kanji from various regions and ...

The Kyoto-based Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation has run the competition every year since 1995. This year's symbol - pronounced like the English word "sigh" - was chosen by just fewer than 21,000 ...