character, letter, word, section of village
字 centers on a written symbol that carries meaning: a character, letter, or word. The 'section of village' meaning is a specific historical usage where a character was used to name a district.
字 combines 宀 (roof) and 子 (child). Historically, it represented a child being nurtured under a roof, which extended to the idea of 'nurturing' written characters and then to characters themselves.
Under a roof 宀, a child 子 learns to write their first characters. Picture a child at home practicing letters.
For ジ, imagine a child under the roof writing the letter 'G' over and over: 'G' sounds like ジ, and the child is learning characters.
letter (of an alphabet); character
character (esp. kanji); letter; written text
section of village
numeral; digit; numeric character
kanji; Chinese character
subtitles; captioning
(being in) the red; deficit
literally; to the letter
misprint; misspelling; typo; typographical error; erratum
surname; family name; last name
cross (for crucifixion); the Cross (of Christ)
emoji
(being in) the black; surplus
first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence)
(piece of) type; movable type; moveable type; printing type
Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet
uppercase letter; capital letter
cross; cross shape
lowercase letter
boldface; bold-type; thick characters
English letter; alphabetic character
braille
form of a character (e.g. simplified, traditional)
penmanship; calligraphy
crossroads; intersection
number of characters; number of letters
character style; character form
horizontal script (esp. of a European language); European writing; Roman letters
alphanumeric character; letters (of the English alphabet) and numbers
jōyō kanji; kanji for common use; list of 2,136 kanji designated for common use (introduced in 1981, revised in 2010)
title lettering
strokes in a Chinese character; stroke count of a Chinese character
(one) letter; (one) character
optical character recognition; OCR
dictionary
number of characters per line, page, etc.