Kanji

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Data

ISO 15924 Hani 500
Type Morphographic
Family Hanzi
Direction TTB RTL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs ~2000
Earliest Date 3000 BCE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry

Overview

While the Joyo standards describe approximately 2000 common use kanji, used for government documents and taught in school “the number of different kanji employed in newspapers and magazines in general is approximately 3200-3300” (Daniels and Bright, 1996, 210). Furthermore Omniglot describes between 5000-10000 kanji used in Japanese writing, the number is most likely higher if one were to account for every possible usage of kanji, for the reason of variability “Number of Glyphs” is said to be 2000.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Smith, Janet 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Japanese Writing, 209-210 Oxford University Press