Japanese word senses marked with topical category "Logograms"

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Parent categories: Symbols, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Han characters

Total 57 word senses

• 一字 (Noun) one letter, one character
• 丸ゴシック体 (Noun) rounded sans-serif
• 丸文字 (Noun) a highly rounded feminine handwriting style born in the 1970s
• 人名用漢字 (Noun) kanji approved for use in names registered in the 戸籍(こせき) (koseki, “family register”)
• 会意 (Noun) compound indicatives
• 俗字 (Noun) a kanji variant that is widespread but not orthodox
• 六書 (Noun) The six principles for composing Chinese script.
• 勘亭流 (Noun) Kantei-ryū, a type of 江戸文字(えどもじ) (Edo moji) usually associated with kabuki signage and characterized by thick, flowing, and rounded strokes
• 印刷標準字体 (Noun) standard form of a 表外漢字 (hyōgai kanji) used in printing; Publishing Standard Glyphs
• 口高 (Noun) the 高 character
• 和字 (Noun) Japanese kokuji
• 品字様 (Noun) Han character that is of 3 identical elements arranged in the style of the character 品
• 四角号碼 (Proper name) Four-Corner
• 国字 (Noun) kokuji (kanji invented outside of China)
• 外字 (Noun) A character not included in a standard set of characters, such as JIS or Unicode. Often found in names of Japanese people and places.
• 字形 (Noun) the form or shape of a character that concerns only minor differences, such as how certain strokes or stroke combinations are drawn, reflecting calligraphic or regional differences; compare 字体 (jitai)
• 字源 (Noun) etymology of a Han character
• 字解 (Noun) explanation of a kanji
• 常用外漢字 (Noun) kanji not approved for regular use
• 常用漢字 (Noun) kanji approved for regular use by the 文部科学省 (Monbu-kagaku-shō, “Japanese Ministry of Education”)
• 幽霊文字 (Noun) ghost character (kanji included in JIS X 0208 but of unknown origin)
• 形声 (Noun) One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters comprising a part that indicates the meaning, and a part that indicates the pronunciation.
• 拡張新字体 (Noun) extended shinjitai (unofficial shinjitai)
• 指事 (Noun) ideogram, particularly in the sense of 六書 ideogram. One of the types of Han characters, containing those characters such as 上 (“above”) and 下 (“below”) that indicate an abstract idea with a non-arbitrary logogram.
• 教科書体 (Noun) a style reminiscent of 楷(かい)書(しょ)体(たい) (kaishotai) written using a pen, used in pedagogy
• 教育漢字 (Noun) the 1,026 kanji taught in primary school; a subset of 常用漢字(じょうようかんじ) (jōyō kanji)
• 新字 (Noun) "new characters": Synonym of 新字体 (shinjitai)
• 新字体 (Noun) shinjitai (a form of Japanese kanji used after 1947)
• 旧字 (Noun) "old characters": Synonym of 旧字体 (kyūjitai)
• 旧字体 (Noun) kyūjitai (traditional form of Japanese kanji used before 1947)
• 明朝体 (Noun) the Ming typographic style of East Asian scripts (Han, hangul, kana), equivalent to the Western serif style
• 書写体 (Noun) non-standard character forms (旧字体, 異体字, 変体仮名, etc.) used in calligraphy
• 本字 (Noun) Chinese kanji (as opposed to kokuji)
• 楷書体 (Noun) regular script-style
• 次様 (Noun) of lower calibre
• 正字 (Noun) kyūjitai
• 江戸文字 (Noun) "Edo characters", distinctive calligraphic (and later, typographic) styles that were born in the Edo period
• 漢字 (Noun) kanji
• 画数 (Noun) number of strokes in a Chinese character
• 略字 (Noun) a colloquial, simplified form of a kanji
• 異体字 (Noun) variant Chinese character, variant kanji
• 異字 (Noun) variant kanji
• 立崎 (Noun) A nickname for the 﨑 character, a variant of 崎.
• 簡体字 (Noun) Simplified Chinese character(s); Simplified Chinese
• 簡化字 (Noun) Simplified Chinese character(s); Simplified Chinese
• 簡易慣用字体 (Noun) variant kanji whose use in place of the 印刷標準字体 (insatsu hyōjun jitai) has been approved
• 繁体字 (Noun) Traditional Chinese character(s); Traditional Chinese
• 表外字 (Noun) Kanji characters outside of the jōyō kanji and jinmeiyō kanji lists. For example, 攪 and its shinjitai form, 撹.
• 表外漢字 (Noun) Kanji characters outside of the jōyō kanji and jinmeiyō kanji lists. For example, 攪.
• 規範字 (Noun) standardized Chinese characters that are used to write Simplified Chinese
• 親字 (Noun) the headword character of an entry in a Han character dictionary
• 親文字 (Noun) synonym of 親字 (oyaji, “Han character dictionary headword”)
• 象形 (Noun) pictogram, particularly in the sense of 六書 pictograms.
• 転注 (Noun) figurative extension of meaning
• はしご高 (Noun) a nickname for the 髙 character, a variant of 高
• ゲバ字 (Noun) A style of written kanji, encompassing an angular form and a set of ryakuji. It is politically associated with leftist student activism.
• ゴシック体 (Noun) the gothic typographic style of East Asian scripts (Han, hangul, kana), equivalent to the Western sans serif style

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