Congee or kanji?
congee is a noun meaning “Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)”; kanji is a noun meaning “The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) kanji is about 9.3 times as common as congee.
What is the difference between congee and kanji?
| congee | kanji | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun |
| Meaning | Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat | The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc |
| Example | none recorded | Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana |
| Forms | congees | kanjis |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/ /ˈkɒndʒi/ | /ˈkænd͡ʒi/ /ˈkaːnd͡ʒi/ /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/ |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words | 1.0 times per million words |
Sources: congee and kanji in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of congee and kanji
congee
- 1
Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)
- 2
A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat
kanji
- 1
The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters
Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana
- 2
A North Indian fermented drink made with beetroot, black mustard seeds, carrots etc
- 3
Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language
I know about a thousand kanji
- 4
Drink made from sugarcane vinegar
- 5
Rice gruel made by fermentation of rice and tastes sour
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, congee or kanji?
congee appears about once in every 9 million words; kanji 1.0 times per million words.
congee about once in every 9 million wordskanji 1.0 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).