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tapioca

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkand͡ʒi/Standard-Indonesian[ˈkaɲ.d͡ʒi]Standard-Indonesian
  1. tapioca

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Malay kanji, from Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci), from Sanskrit काञ्जीक (kāñjīka, “sour gruel, water in boiled rice”).

adj/ˈkand͡ʒi/Standard-Indonesian[ˈkaɲ.d͡ʒi]Standard-Indonesian
  1. give up

noun/ˈkand͡ʒi/Standard-Indonesian[ˈkaɲ.d͡ʒi]Standard-Indonesian
  1. Kanji, Chinese characters in Japanese language usage

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 漢字(かんじ) (kanji, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”) (compare Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì), Min Nan 漢字 /汉字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī), and Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶)). Doublet of hanja, hanzi, and honji.

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