Kanji is letters that come from China. At first, the ancient Chinese people draw things that exist around them. The images are then made as simple as possible and drawn in the form of boxes to ease them in writing. Then came the kanji 山 (Yama, the mountain), 川 (Kawa, rivers), 田 (ta, rice field), 人 (hito, human), and others.
Because it originated from simplifying an image, each character of Kanji has a specific meaning. This also means that almost all the objects that exist in this world (especially words that are included in the Chinese language and Japanese) can be written in kanji. Thus it can be assumed to be the number of kanji is almost equal to the number of objects in the world.
Kanji comes into Japanese around the fourth century. At that time China was under the power of Kan Dynasty. Thus the letter in the form of drawings called "Kanji", which means "letters from Kan country".
Although Japanese Kanji adapted from China, but not all the kanji in Japanese are same with Chinese kanji. This is because there are several kanji that have the simplification of forms. In addition, the number of kanji in Japan is not as much in China. In 1900 began the argument for limiting the number of kanji that so much. Finally in 1981 set list of kanji that contains the 1945 kanji used in everyday life.
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