WEBKanji (漢字, Japanese pronunciation:) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana .
WEB漢字 may refer to: Chinese characters, logograms used in writing Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean sometimes, and Vietnamese formerly. By extension, the Chinese family of scripts. Kanji, the Chinese characters used in modern written Japanese.