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Our comprehensive guide to studying and mastering Japanese kanji.
The Kanji Wheel is a personalized visualization of your entire knowledge of Japanese kanji. It's based on your 'mastery score' for each kanji in the system - an assessment of how well you know that specific kanji.
A short introduction to kanji - where they came from and what they are.
The most useful kanji to learn are the ones you will encounter most frequently. The 100 kanji here can be studied in collections of 25 and will give you a great start for reading Japanese.
Lists of the 214 standard radicals and the most common components used in kanji, together with a comprehensive list of all radicals and components used in the Jōyō kanji, together with meanings and explanations.
Ever since we started Kanshudo a few years ago, one of the most consistently requested features has been for help answering questions like...
We're very excited to introduce our newest game: Kanji Keywords! Kanji Keywords brings together two of the most important learning...
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...
We are very excited to announce a new way to access in-depth kanji information: Thematic Bundles, from our partner Joy o' Kanji! Thematic...
Kanji Builder, along with a conversation with our founder Jonathan Kirk, was featured on Joy o' Kanji, the kanji 'deep dive' website. Joy o'...
As part of our transition to the new Japanese Mastery system, which tracks your progress with grammar and vocabulary as well as kanji in...
We're delighted to announce several improvements to the Drawing center. Drawing kanji yourself is a great way to cement them in your mind,...
We're excited to announce a new set of kanji collections on Kanshudo: our 'core' collections. We've collected and organized full sets...
We've bundled 16 more Joy o' Kanji essays to show you the connections between kanji. Bundles 15 and 16 largely focus on water. The first...
Flashcards are a great learning tool, and with the modern convenience of phones and computers, more accessible than ever. Kanshudo includes...
We recently introduced Thematic Bundles, which enable you to make connections that you might otherwise miss among groups of Joy o' Kanji...
Thematic Bundles help you see differently! See the world from mountaintops! See time sliced up in unexpected ways! See through the soft haze...
When multiple kanji represent a concept, how do you know which one to use at any given time? Two of these bundles showcase characters with...
Two new bundles spotlight the places where land meets sea in Japan, creating distinctive shapes, sometimes causing shipwrecks, and inspiring...
From pride to shame, two bundles illuminate powerful emotions. The insect bundle (which includes essays about the mosquito and bee)...
These two bundles belong together, the eight essays collectively constituting a celebration of the fabulous fabrics of Japan. We all know...
It feels auspicious when a new year dawns. At such times, symbolism matters greatly, particularly to the Japanese. Appropriately, Bundle 51...
The four newest bundles provide a crash course in the Japanese arts. One focuses on manga, another on calligraphy, and a third on the...
One of the best things about learning kanji is seeing how the Japanese take symbols for objects (from eyebrows to bubbles in this selection)...
One bundle helps you play house, spotlighting kanji related to household furnishings. The other bundle introduces four characters with which...
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...
Two new bundles show how the Japanese speak of clothing parts (collars, sleeves, and hems) and accessories (hats, umbrellas, fans, and...
As these bundles show, we cannot always be strong and dominant. One collection spotlights the inevitable process of weakening and dying,...
Trees soar to great heights in two new bundles. One focuses on what the cherry, pine, cedar, and willow symbolize to the Japanese. The other...
Two new bundles put the spotlight on animals. One focuses on what the dragon, tiger, crane, and turtle symbolize in both positive and...
The best way to learn Japanese kanji readings is to learn the most useful words that use them. In the same way, it is easier to learn words...
Drawing a kanji by hand is one of the best ways to truly cement it in your memory. We are delighted to announce that Kanji Draw is now...
For those of you actively studying Japanese, we have great news: a set of 42 collections of all kanji used in the very popular Japanese for...
Chopsticks are among the most useful and important implements in daily life in Japan - you literally need them to eat! Learn about the...
Manage your preference for the Daily Kanji email, a once-a-day email with details of a kanji suitable for your study level.
Your kanji mastery score is calculated from your mastery of individual kanji, so anything that improves your mastery of kanji will improve your score. For example:
- Study flashcards for the kanji
- Use Quick Study / Quick Test to test yourself (make sure that the 'Update my mastery scores based on my answers' setting is on)
- Play a game which affects kanjimastery, such as Kanji Match, Kanji Builder, Kanji Draw, or Kanji Keywords
- Manually edit the mastery score of an individual kanji point from its details page or a kanji search
- Complete Kanji Challenges
Your kanji mastery will also be 'inferred' when you take a Kanji Quiz, and from other activities such as Boost. Inferred masteries will never reach 4, however - to reach 4, you need to study flashcards or take multiple Challenges over time.
For more information, see our detailed guide How to use the Kanji Wheel to guide your Japanese studies.
Our comprehensive guide to reading Japanese kanji introduces Chinese (on) and Japanese (kun) readings of kanji, gives you rules of thumb for determining how a word you encounter is read, and shows you how to use Kanshudo's search syntax for finding words that use a specific kanji reading.
The Kanshudo Component Builder is a fast and effective way to look up kanji - draw, type, or choose components from a list. This how-to guide provides detailed instructions.
A detailed how to guide introducing the Kanshudo Kanji Wheel.
Hyōgaiji, literally ('characters outside the chart') are kanji which are not classified as Jōyō or Jinmeiyō.
The Jinmeiyō Kanji is the set of 862 kanji designated by the Japanese government for use in names in addition to the 2136 Jōyō Kanji.
The Jōyō (常用) or 'daily use' kanji are 2136 kanji designated by the Japanese government for use in schools, newspapers etc. Use our collection to study them by priority or review them for reference.
Kanshudo Kanji Builder is a great way to cement your knowledge of kanji. Choose components from the list, and drag them onto the correct boxes on the grid.
In these collections we present the Jōyō kanji, organized into groups tailored to the JLPT levels. Within each level, we order the kanji by frequency so you can learn the most useful first.
Almost all kanji are actually made of smaller elements called 'components'. Kanshudo uses this fact as the basis of our learning mnemonics. Various symbols are used to define the location of components in kanji: ⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻.
The truest test of your knowledge of a kanji is the ability to draw it! Practice or study with our standalone Kanji Draw game.
Use the Kanshudo Component Builder to quickly identify kanji components and search for kanji that contain them. Draw a component, type its name, or look it up in a list.
Choose a set of kanji to focus your studies on. Your study set is recommended for you by Kanshudo, but you can also set it manually. Challenges and other Kanshudo features use your study set by default.
The Kanshudo Challenge uses a combination of learning games and tests to help you learn a kanji with associated words and example sentences. It's the most effective way we've found for studying kanji.
Read our detailed how to guide on the Kanshudo Challenge - the most effective way we've found for studying kanji.
A quick overview of the Kanshudo approach to learning Japanese kanji: mnemonics, components, and 'cascading kanji'.
The Kyōiku Kanji (教育漢字) are the first 1006 kanji taught in Japanese schools, during grades one to six. They form the first half or so of the Jōyō Kanji. Here you can view or study the kanji in ordered sets.
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To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard.
You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly.
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