Does every kanji come from a Chinese character? If so, where can I find the origins of a kanji?


I know that kanji are borrowed from Chinese characters but are _all_ of them
borrowed?

As a Chinese native speaker, I am wondering the origins of modern kanjis. Most
of them are exactly same as the Chinese counterpart, others are simplified
versions of Chinese characters (like 聴 is a simplification of 聽 and 図 a
simplification of 圖) and I know that this is due to the reform after WWII. But
there are some kanji that I just can't figure out which hanzi they originate
from. For example, 転 and 込. The former seems to come from 運 or 轉 but I'm not
sure. Maybe I'm completely wrong.

Are 転 and 込 kanjis that native Japanese made up? Not based on a hanzi? But
after seeing this
[post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2159/recent-creation-or-
adoption-of-hanzi-characters-into-japanese-kanji), this is not very possible.
Is there a way I can find from which hanzis did these kanjis originate?




Yes, there are a few kanji that were invented purely by Japanese people.
Examples are listed in
[和製漢字](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E8%A3%BD%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97).
Some kanji were reverse-imported to Chinese (see: [Japanese-coined CJKV
characters used outside
Japanese](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Japanese-
coined_CJKV_characters_used_outside_Japanese)). But I believe there are also
many Chinese-origin kanji that are in use only in Japan because they have
fallen out of use elsewhere. So not all kanji that are unfamiliar to you are
Japanese-coined.

Wiktionary has the information about the etymology of most kanji (although I
don't know how much they are credible).

  * 込 is a 和製漢字 and is included in the above list. ([Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BE%BC))
  * 転 is a simplified version of 轉. ([Wiktoinary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BB%A2))




Yes, there are a few kanji that were invented purely by Japanese people.
Examples are listed in
[和製漢字](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E8%A3%BD%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97).
Some kanji were reverse-imported to Chinese (see: [Japanese-coined CJKV
characters used outside
Japanese](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Japanese-
coined_CJKV_characters_used_outside_Japanese)). But I believe there are also
many Chinese-origin kanji that are in use only in Japan because they have
fallen out of use elsewhere. So not all kanji that are unfamiliar to you are
Japanese-coined.

Wiktionary has the information about the etymology of most kanji (although I
don't know how much they are credible).

  * 込 is a 和製漢字 and is included in the above list. ([Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BE%BC))
  * 転 is a simplified version of 轉. ([Wiktoinary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BB%A2))

