kanji

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (MC xanH, “Han dynasty, China”) + Middle Chinese 字 (MC dziH, “[written] character”) (compare Korean 한자 (hanja), Mandarin 漢字／汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự). Doublet of hanja.

noun

1. (uncountable) The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
   Kana is a syllabic script, and kanji is a logographic or ideographic script. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ip5cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA226&dq=%22kanji%22 Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana. These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eTk6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&dq=%22kanji+is+the+typical+representation%22
2. Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.
   I know about a thousand kanji.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi कांजी (kāñjī).

noun

1. A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot,black mustard seeds,carrot etc
2. Drink made from sugarcane vinegar
3. Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour