Kanjis

Are the characters used in China for over 3000 years. Are ideograms (diagrams or pictures that represent ideas) developed from pictograms and signs. For example the character for sun was a sun-shaped design and the tree-like branches of a tree. Theseideograms were mixed together to form other words. Thus, wood is the combination of two trees and a forest is a combination of 3 trees.

He says there are about 50,000 kanji combination of them form the Japanese language.However, as the Japanese are very practical decided they were too many kanji and normally not used them all, so officially designated 1945 as use kanji "diary". These are the kanji for themselves and are combined with each other everyday language in companies, government agencies, newspapers etc..

Most kanji introduced from China can be read in two ways: China-readable form or shape"on" and readable form or shape Japanese "kun".

There are also fabricated and kanji unique to Japan for their own use.