Example sentences for: kanji

How can you use “kanji” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Previous years' kanji have not been much cheerier: In 1995 "earthquake" took the honors; in 1996 a mass food poisoning scandal led to the victory of "food"; and 1997 was represented by "bankruptcy."

  • • Pure Japanese name written in kanji: Otokogumi (Warriors' Group)

  • • Pure Japanese name written in khanji and romanji: Hikaru GENJI (The kanji component, hikaru, means light (as illumination); GENJI, always capitalized, seems to be a literary allusion to Lady Shikumi Murasaki's c. A.D. 1000 novel The Tale of Genji, Genji being the male protagonist.)

  • • Pure Japanese name written in kanji and hiragana: Kaguya-hime (literally, Princess Sparkle, from a classic Japanese nursery tale.)

  • Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun declares that "[g]loom and despondency sum up 1998, according to the kanji chosen by the public to symbolize the year now drawing to an end.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast