eh... I think most people who recognize the word &quot;kanji&quot; at all are pretty well aware that it&#x27;s a foreign word, and are likely to think of it that way. I do have a dictionary with an entry for &quot;kanji&quot;, but that dictionary includes plenty of other foreign words too, like &quot;haole&quot; [Hawaiian term for non-Hawaiians, particularly (often pejorative) white people] (it doesn&#x27;t have &quot;hanzi&quot;, but it does have an entry for Han). I also have dictionaries that don&#x27;t have an entry for &quot;kanji&quot;.