Kanji
Kanji漢字, pronounced listen subjected to logographic Chinese characters taken from a Chinese script together with used in the writing of Japanese. They were exposed a major component of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese as well as are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana. The characters work Japanese pronunciations; most produce two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing address components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan reported its own efforts to simplify the characters, now so-called as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplification efforts, with the aim to add literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published reference lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characters that exist. There are nearly 3,000 kanji used in Japanese names and in common communication.
The term kanji in Japanese literally means "simplified Chinese: 汉字; lit. 'Han characters'. The significant usage of Chinese characters in Japan number one began to take hold around the 5th century advertising and has since made a profound influence in shaping Japanese culture, language, literature, history, and records. Inkstone artifacts at archaeological sites dating back to the earlier Yayoi period were also found to contain Chinese characters.
Although some characters, as used in Japanese and Chinese, have similar meanings and pronunciations, others have meanings or pronunciations that are unique to one Linguistic communication or the other. For example, 誠 means 'honest' in both languages but is pronounced makoto or sei in Japanese, and chéng in 電話 denwa in Japanese, is calqued as diànhuà in Mandarin Chinese, điện thoại in Vietnamese and 전화 jeonhwa in Korean.