Japanese font and sounds

I have no idea where to start with this problem, so I come to you KP discord.
I've found an image of a print I'm trying to replicate with Japanese and roman characters. The romanised version is written next to the japanese characters.

So how can I get the Japanese characters in this image as a font I can use??

... and I'm guessing, as an example, the BUSHIDO contains three Japanese characters consisting of BU - SHI - DO. This only makes it more baffling to me.

Screenshot_2022-11-30_at_07-44-47_Bushido_and_Japanese_Sun_White_text_Art_Print_by_DCornel.png

Jochem•11/30/22, 12:20 PM

The Japanese writing system uses three different character sets, Kanji (which is these symbols), Katakana (which is more like a western alphabet, but each symbol represents a syllable), and Hiragana which is like Katakana but I think mostly used to represent borrowed words? Kanji are sometimes used as full words, but also sometimes used to represent syllables.
Kanji can be represented with multibyte unicode sequences, there's a reference I found here: http://www.rikai.com/library/kanjitables/kanji_codes.unicode.shtml, though I've never actually done anything with Kanji or any of the other writing systems, and whether they get rendered is obviously up to font support as well.
I can't really help further, but just thought a bit more background (even if it's vague) might help you search better

JJochem The Japanese writing system uses three different character sets, Kanji (which is...

Å Marlon GOP•11/30/22, 12:41 PM

Haha! So I've probably bitten of more then I can chew here ...

I wrote this and the symbol pop up:
and a beautiful sun popped up.
But when I wrote this:
(the first of the kanji chracters), only was printed on screen. Is this because I haven't added a japanese font to the document (which I haven't because, I don't know how to do that ...).

Jochem•11/30/22, 12:42 PM

the font would probably work like any other, you just have to find a kanji font that you can use and like the look of

Å Marlon GOP•11/30/22, 12:46 PM

So e.g. adding this to the html/css as a font?
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif+JP?query=noto

Google Fonts

Google Fonts: Noto Serif Japanese

Noto is a global font collection for writing in all modern and ancient languages. Noto Serif JP is a modulated (“serif”) design for the Japanese language and ot

Jochem•11/30/22, 12:47 PM

probably yeah

Å Marlon GOP•11/30/22, 1:07 PM

So this is what I get ...
Just the three last characters
https://codepen.io/amarlong/pen/jOKvYWg

CodePenÅ Marlon G

Japanese Font

...

MarkBoots•11/30/22, 1:37 PM

here a start
https://codepen.io/MarkBoots/pen/xxzapmY?editors=1100

CodePenMark Boots

Japanese Font

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Å Marlon GOP•11/30/22, 1:47 PM

Jeez! That's insane ...

Thank you so much!
One question still remains though – how did you get the Japanese characters in there? I don't see a font family, and did you just copy the character from somewhere (like here: http://www.rikai.com/library/kanjitables/kanji_codes.unicode.shtml), or do you have a Japanese keyboard?

MarkBoots•11/30/22, 1:52 PM

nope, i reversed image search and figured out it was about the "bushido code".
then copied the chars from here https://bushidocodeyear9ses.weebly.com/bushido-code-7-virtues.html

The bushido code

Bushido code: 7 virtues

Justice or Rectitude (義 gi) This is all about making sure that we have the right way when we make a decision. That we have the power to make a decision quickly. It is about making sure that we...

Å Marlon GOP•11/30/22, 2:03 PM

That's so cool! So one doesn't actually need a japanese font, one can just find a live site with the characters, inspect the element, and copy it.

And since you've helped me so much. When I'm finished with this print project, do I then post it under community/showcase fro feedback, or does it go here under help/front-end?

MarkBoots•11/30/22, 2:04 PM

these characters are part of the utf-8 charset. not all fonts support them, but system font's surely do

Å Marlon GOP•11/30/22, 2:06 PM

Thank you so much, again! Have a great day!