The Japanese government limited the kanji used in official publications to the 1945 touyou kanji with about 4000 readings. Japanese dictionaries list around 10,000 kanji. Most sentences include kanji as well as hiragana.
When used in verbs and adjectives they mostly are written in combination with hiragana. Kanji are mainly used to describe names and nouns. The term “kanji” literally means “Han characters” or “Chinese characters” and it is identical to the characters in China to describe their writing.
To a lesser extend it nowadays also uses some Latin alphabet for abbreviations and numbers.ġ) Kanji (漢字)Kanji originally came from China to Japan. The Japanese written language consists of a combination of three types of characters.
