KYOTO -- The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on Dec. 12 that the kanji character for 2024, which expresses the state of the world through a single character, was "kin," meaning ...

One system of Japanese writing, kanji, uses Chinese characters, so Hongkongers often use the Cantonese pronunciation of these Japanese words in their slang. But if you are unfamiliar with what ...

Archaic forms of kanji that are difficult to decipher in ... scholars and others can gain a better grasp of what people were writing about in bygone times. Six research institutes were involved ...