Kanji Character, Letter, Symbol
Noun
じ
もっとていねいに字をかいてください。
Please write the character more carefully.
八の字まゆ毛の男せいとけっこんしました。
I married a man whose eyebrows are shaped like the character for eight.
この字は何という意味ですか？
What does this character mean?
The kanji and the word are exactly the same. That means they share meanings as well.
You only learned one reading for the kanji that makes up this word, and it's the same as the reading for this word (of course). That means you should already know the reading.