The word "kanji" is Japanese; the Chinese word for their alphabet is
"hanxi".  And I would describe it as "one of the three Japanese

alphabets"

rather than "adopted into the...".

Technically speaking, there's only one Japanese "alphabet," and it's
identical to our own.  Hiragana and katakana are syllabaries, not
alphabets, and kanji is a system of logograms.  

-- David

Yes, technically speaking... a bit too technical, if you ask me.  I think
I'll keep it as an alphabet in the fic, so as to avoid confusion with those
people who don't know what a syllabary is (since it really isn't the kind
of thing that I can explain in the fic...).
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