The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

The runner-up kanji was “shin” (new), which received 14,850 entries, followed by “wa” (harmony), the other character of the new era name, with 10,281 entries. The characters “hen ...

The Kyoto-based Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation has run the competition every year since 1995. This year's symbol - pronounced like the English word "sigh" - was chosen by just fewer than 21,000 ...