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Kanji topic · 15 kanji

Kanji for language and the arts

Kanji for speaking, listening, reading and writing, plus music and pictures. 語 (go) turns a country into its language, as in 日本語 (nihongo, Japanese) and 英語 (eigo, English), and the word 漢字 (kanji) is itself written with two kanji from this list.

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Kanji readings, meanings and frequency from KANJIDIC2, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT levels from Jonathan Waller's JLPT resources (CC BY).