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To find any kanji, first try to identify the components it is made up of. Once you have identified any component, search for it in any of three ways:
  1. Draw it in the drawing area
  2. Type the name in the text area
  3. Look for it in the list
Example: look up 漢
  • Notice that 漢 is made of several components: 氵 艹 口 夫
  • Draw any of these components (one at a time) in the drawing area, and select it when you see it
  • Alternatively, look for a component in the list. 氵 艹 口 each have three strokes; 夫 has four strokes
  • If you know the meanings of the components, type any of them in the text area: water (氵), grass (艹), mouth (口) or husband (夫)
  • Keep adding components until you can see your kanji in the list of matches that appears near the top.
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The Kanshudo Component Builder can recognize any of the 416 components listed in the chart below the drawing area. Tips:
  • Draw a component in the center of the area, as large as you can
  • Try to draw the component as it appears in the kanji you're looking up
  • Don't worry about stroke order or number of strokes
  • Don't draw more than one component at a time
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たろう
太郎
は
えいご
英語
を
はな
話
しますね。
Taro speaks English, doesn't he?
Grammar and points of interest
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JLPT:
particle を
 
direct object marker
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JLPT:
particle ね
 
tag question marker
Conjugations and inflections
  話します is the masu form of 'su' godan verb 話す   ALL INFLECTIONS
Names
太郎
Common reading:
たろう   Tarou   (male given name)
Additional readings:
たろお   Taroo   (unclassified person name)
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Words
English (language)
(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)
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'su' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat
2. to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning and 2 forms, examples and links)
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Kanji
太
タ   タイ   ふとい fat   ふとる to get fat, to put on weight   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
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人
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
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丶
dot   
郎
ロウ    husband, man   
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良
リョウ   よい good   
3
⻏
group   おおざと    
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英
エイ    England; hero; flower   
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2
艹
grass   
央
オウ    centre   
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語
ゴ   かたる to talk, relate   かたらう to talk together, chat   
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言
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   いう to say   
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口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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五
ゴ   いつ-    いつつ five   
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話
ワ   はなす to talk   はなし talking   
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舌
ゼツ   した tongue   
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千
セン   1000; thousand   ち 1000   
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
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十
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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丨
stick   
More info on this sentence: Google Japan ⇗ Sentence translate
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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
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