Where does “kanji” come from?

kanji (Polish) comes from English kanji, from Japanese かんじ, from Late Middle Chinese 字.

kanji (Polish): kanji

Definitions

  1. kanji

Ancestry of “kanji”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishkanjiThe system of writing Japanese using Chinese...
2Japaneseかんじ—
3Late Middle Chinese字—
Every word from Late Middle Chinese 字 →Every word from Japanese かんじ →Every word from English kanji →