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> Refereing to chinese character as Kanji is inaccurate. "Kanji" is often translated into English as "Chinese character", so the two terms tend to be used inte
by fenomas 6y ago
> Refereing to chinese character as Kanji is inaccurate.
"Kanji" is often translated into English as "Chinese character", so the two terms tend to be used interchangeably even when someone is referring to text written in Japanese.
- andi999 6y agoThanks. I didnt know that. So would people call chinese texts also as kanji?
- fenomas 6y agoNot intentionally I don't think, but people might do that if they're not sure which language the characters came from or if they just don't know the term "hanzi".
- thiagocesar 6y agoIn Japanese there is no distinction between kanji and hanzi, they are the same thing, and written equally - 漢字. In English, it would be most appropriate to call Chinese language characters hanzi, and Japanese language characters kanji, but this is an English distinction, not one in the native tongues that use these characters. As the author of these drawings is Japanese, the correct term would be “kanji”, but the word “kanji” literally means “Chinese character”.