Kanji (漢字, pronounced [kaɲdʑi] ( listen)) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system. They are used alongside the Japanese syllabic scripts hiragana and katakana. The Japanese term kanji for the Chinese characters literally means "Han characters".
Languages: Old Japanese, Japanese, Ryukyu...
Sister systems: Hanja, Zhuyin, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Nom, Khitan script, Jurchen script, Tangut script, Yi script
Parent systems: Oracle bone script > Seal script ...
Unicode alias: Han
(info from Wikipedia)
It's the same in both Chinese and Japanese.
