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Japanese Dictionary Quick Search

Search the most comprehensive free Japanese dictionary available, with 13,500 kanji (including 3,500 with mnemonics), 260,000 words, 150,000 example sentences, 260 grammar points, and over 600,000 names. All entries are prioritized according to their usefulness.

Enter Japanese, romaji or English, or use the Component Builder (部) to enter kanji. Quick search will display the most common kanji, words, names and examples matching your search, together with links for more detailed exploration by category.

For example:

おといあわせ

Change what's included in your quick search by toggling the 'Include' options. To search specifically for kanji, words, names or examples, click the pink categories above. You can also search our Grammar reference library.

See ADVANCED SEARCH for all ways to search.

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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Change component list

By default the component builder shows the most common components (themselves joyo kanji, or used in at least 3 other joyo kanji). Select an alternative set of components below.

Components used commonly in the joyo kanji
Standard radicals (and their variants) only
All components and radicals

Full details of all components and their English names can be found here.

Help with the component builder

For detailed instructions, see the Component builder how to guide.

To find any kanji, first try to identify the components it is made up of.

For any components you recognize, if you know the English meaning or name, start typing it in the text area. Full details of all components and their English names can be found here.

Alternatively, count the strokes of the component, and scan the list to find it visually.

Example

To find the kanji 漢:

Notice that it is made of several components: 氵艹口夫.
氵艹口 all have three strokes, so you could look in the list in the 3 stroke section. 夫 has four strokes.
Alternatively, you could start typing 'water' (氵), 'grass' (艹), 'mouth' (口) or 'husband' (夫) in the search area, and the components will be highlighted in yellow.
Keep adding components until you can see your kanji in the list of matches that appears near the top.