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字 じ N4

  1. character (esp. kanji); letter; written text
  2. handwriting; penmanship
  3. the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

字 あざ N1

  1. section of village

字 あざな

  1. Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations)
  2. nickname
  3. section of a village

字引 じびき N5

  1. dictionary

字体 じたい N3

  1. form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional)
  2. font; type; typeface

字幕 じまく

  1. captioning; subtitles

字形 じけい

  1. character form; character style

字数 じすう

  1. number of characters; number of letters

字画 じかく

  1. stroke count of a Chinese character; strokes in a Chinese character

字詰め じづめ

  1. number of characters per line, page, etc.
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.