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Posted: 2025-06-27,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji

One bundle helps you play house, spotlighting kanji related to household furnishings. The other bundle introduces four characters with which you can pour yourself into a pursuit, for better and for worse!
61
Home Furnishings
床 卓 棚 椅

62
Hopelessly Devoted
凝 傾 酔 陶

Posted: 2025-05-31,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji

Two new bundles show how the Japanese speak of clothing parts (collars, sleeves, and hems) and accessories (hats, umbrellas, fans, and shoes) in both literal and figurative ways.
59
Accessories as Metaphors
靴 傘 扇 履

60
Fashion Can Be Figurative
襟 帽 袖 裾

Posted: 2025-04-30,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji

Two new bundles spotlight the places where land meets sea in Japan, creating distinctive shapes, sometimes causing shipwrecks, and inspiring place names and designs.
57
The Shape of Water
潟 江 礁 湾

58
A Complex Coastline
崎 浜 浦 岬


Pop kanji that fit the descriptions! Build your kanji knowledge with our latest fun kanji game.
We're very excited to announce that we've now launched our first standalone game in quite some time: Kanji Pop. In each round, you're presented with a grid of 16 kanji. You'll be given a series of descriptions, each of which will match one or more of the remaining kanji. Select the correct kanji to 'pop' it and clear it from the grid. Try to complete as many rounds as you can!
All your answers are recorded below the game board for each round, so you can easily Favorite any you want to come back to later.
In the settings area, you can choose the kanji you want to focus on - by default, the game will focus on kanji with your current usefulness / JLPT level.
You can access Kanji Pop from the PLAY menu at the top of every page, or from the links at the bottom of every page. As with all Kanshudo features, you can also just use Quick Search.
When you've played a few games, please let us know what you think!
For more Japanese kanji, word and grammar games to help make your Japanese studies fun, see all our games in the Play Index.
Posted: 2025-03-31,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji

Two new Thematic Bundles focus on the itty-bitty - but in opposite ways. With the kanji in Bundle 55, the Japanese grouse about having too little, whereas an affection for all that is small and cute streams through Bundle 56.
55
Size of a Postage Stamp
蚊 狭 猫 涙

56
Adorably Petite
掌 豆 姫 零

OLDER BLOG POSTS
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