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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Sen," the kanji for war or battle, was chosen by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation to represent 2022. The foundation's ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...

When it comes to the qualities captured in quintessential Japanese baby names, nature, virtue, depth of character, and hopes ...

Ancient writing characters that date to the first century AD are being taught in a decidedly 21st-century technological programs developed by two DePauw students. Kanji characters were developed in ...

KYOTO--Fittingly and not surprisingly, "kin," or gold, was selected as the kanji most capturing the mood of 2021, the year ...

TOKYO >> The character “rei” — as used in the era name of Reiwa, which has been translated to mean “beautiful harmony” — was chosen as kanji of the year, the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation ...

After a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan has chosen 密 (mitsu) as the kanji (Chinese character) of the year. While literally translated as “secret,” the character 密, in this case, can ...