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By default the Component Builder shows the most common Joyo kanji components (ie, components which are themselves Joyo kanji, or which are used in at least 3 other Joyo kanji). Select an alternative set of components below.

Most common Joyo kanji components
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Kanshudo Component Builder Help

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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. Once you have identified any component, search for it in any of three ways:

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Type the name in the text area
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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.

Kanshudo Component Builder Drawing Help

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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
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1 exact word match found in search '二十八星瓢虫'

にじゅうやほしてんとう

二十八星瓢虫

noun

28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata) (often written with kana only)

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15 partial word matches found in search '二十八星瓢虫'

numeric

two (ふ and ふう used mainly when counting aloud. 弐, 貳 and 貮 are used in legal documents.)

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noun

20; twenty

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numeric

two (originally from Chinese 'er')

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Most common form: 二十歳

noun

1. 20 years old

2. twenty (archaic; this meaning is restricted to form 二十, 廿)

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numeric

ten (拾 is used in legal documents)

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じゅうはち

noun

18; eighteen

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numeric

ten (originally from Chinese 'shí')

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Most common form: ８

numeric

eight (捌 is used in legal documents)

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numeric

eight (originally from Chinese 'bā')

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noun

1. star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)

2. offender; perpetrator (esp. ホシ; slang)

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noun

1. Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) (see also: 星宿, 二十八宿, 朱雀; astronomy, etc. term)

noun, noun (suffix), noun (prefix)

2. Singapore

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noun

1. gourd; calabash; bottle gourd (archaic)

2. dried gourd, used as flask

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noun

1. Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd); gourd (container) made from its fruit (see also: 瓢箪; often written with kana only)

2. Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd) (see also: 夕顔; this meaning is restricted to reading ふくべ)

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てんとうむし

Most common form: テントウ虫

noun

ladybug (Harmonia axyridis); ladybird (often written with kana only)

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noun

insect; bug; cricket; moth; worm

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Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. 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. For an overview, take the tour.

Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), 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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