what do kanji & akatsuki mean in English?

[A Boy]

Hi, I am about to learn Japanese. Could you guys tell me what do the words kanji and akatsuki mean in English literarily? Thanks for your helps. I will appreciate it.

[stukasa]

Kanji are Chinese characters. Japanese use them to represent words or parts of words. They claim this makes it easier to write, but I think it just makes it harder. ^^;;
Aka means red and tsuki means moon... put them together and you get akatsuki, which means dawn (or, "in the event of").

[SniperTak]

Or a crimson moon. I dont know if they exist in real life, but animes and comics often have red moons, symbolizing blood.

[orisa]

There are different kanji's for Akatsuki. The one with "red" and "moon" is what SniperTak said. The other one with one kanji is "daybreak", or "after succeeding". You can't really tell which is which with romanji.

[Nemian]

YOu guys forgot to answer what the world kanji actually means. It literally means 'Chinese Letters,' or it can mean 'feeling.'
Chinese letters = 漢字
Feeling = 感じ(or rarely, 観じ　these older characters are experiencing a slight comeback in Japan at the moment)

There are other meanings, but something tells me you werent asking after them, as they are much less common.

[aran2]

Hi, I am about to learn Japanese. Could you guys tell me what do the words kanji and akatsuki mean in English literarily? Thanks for your helps. I will appreciate it.

akatsuki means "dawn/break of day".written by Japanese "暁".
crimzon moon means "赤い月">>"akaitsuki".it is different from "akatsuki",i think.

but This has the possibility of the misspelling at romaji.

[xcomp]

Yes, it's really hard to tell just from Romaji due to homophones in the Japanese language. Sometimes even with context it's still hard. There's a few who say there are slight tonal variations when Japanese are trying to mean different things but I really don't notice any difference. With Chinese homophones however, I really do notice a difference so I should be able to hear it if there was any in Japanese.

But anyway, "akatsuki" can mean crimson moon or "dawn". It also seems to be a common name for all sorts such as schools, shops etc. In that sense it would probably used as "dawn".

As for "kanji", it can refer to Chinese characters, one of the 3 scripts used in Japanese which you will eventually learn if you're taking Japanese. It can also mean "feeling". Like I said earlier, there are a lot of homophones in Japanese so Kanji is there to distinguish the words.

[JediCabbit]

Or a crimson moon. I dont know if they exist in real life, but animes and comics often have red moons, symbolizing blood.

They definately do exist, I've seen at least two that I remember. They were caused by two different things. One by a certain type of eclipse(I don't remember exactly what it was), and the other by sheer quantity of air polution while the moon was on the horizon.

Sorry if this is off topic, but I just had to share when I saw this. :)