letters, characters

courtesy name / nickname / a section of a village

character / letter / word

(historical, offensive) the lowest group in Japan’s caste system during the Edo period

a female given name

(idiomatic) more or less

(education) The 1,026 kanji taught in primary school; a subset of 常用漢字 (じょうようかんじ, jōyō kanji)

smaller kanji historically used as a pronunciation guide, similar to modern furigana

kanji approved for regular use by the 文部科学省 (Monbu-kagaku-shō, “Japanese Ministry of Education”)

Sino-Korean vocabulary or "Hanja-eo"