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 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 ...

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 ...