However, the Japanese of that era probably had no comprehension of the script, and would remain illiterate until the fifth century AD. Chinese coins from the first century AD have been found in Yayoi period archaeological sites. The earliest known instance of such an import was the King of Na gold seal given by Emperor Guangwu of Han to a Wa emissary in 57 AD. Nihon Shoki (720 AD), considered by historians and archeologists as the most complete extant historical record of ancient Japan, was written entirely in kanji.Ĭhinese characters first came to Japan on official seals, letters, swords, coins, mirrors, and other decorative items imported from China.
5 Local developments and divergences from Chinese. 2.5 Japanese Industrial Standards for kanji. 2 Orthographic reform and lists of kanji. For example, the word for telephone, 電話 denwa in Japanese, is calqued as diànhuà in Mandarin Chinese, điện thoại in Vietamese and 전화 jeonhwa in Korean. Japanese Kanji or Japanese words have also influenced and been borrowed by China, Korea and Vietnam. For example, 誠, meaning "honest" in both Chinese and Japanese, is pronounced makoto or sei in Japanese, but pronounced chéng in Standard Mandarin Chinese. Īlthough some kanji will have similar meaning and pronunciation as Chinese, some can have very different meanings and pronunciations as well. It is written with the same characters as in traditional Chinese to refer to the character writing system, hanzi ( 漢字). The Japanese term kanji for the Chinese characters literally means " Han characters". Kanji ( 漢字, pronounced ( listen)) are a set of logographic characters from Chinese script which forms a major part of the Japanese writing system alongside with Japanese syllabic scripts hiragana and katakana. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. 
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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