KYOTO--Fittingly and not surprisingly, "kin," or gold, was selected as the kanji most capturing the mood of 2021, the year Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics for the second time. In what has ...

The Kyoto-based Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation has run the competition every year since 1995. This year's symbol - pronounced like the English word "sigh" - was chosen by just fewer than 21,000 ...