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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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For details of all components and their English names, see the Component collections.

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:

Draw it in the drawing area
Type the name in the text area
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.

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
Don't draw more than one component at a time

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1 exact word match found in search '南'

noun

south

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192 words found beginning with '南'

noun

1. north and south; north to south

2. South Korea and North Korea (abbreviation)

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noun, 'no' adjective

southwest

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noun, 'no' adjective

southeast

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なんきょく

noun, 'no' adjective

1. South Pole

2. the Antarctic; Antarctica (see also: 南極圏, 南極大陸)

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アフリカ

noun

South Africa

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noun

southern part; the south (of a region)

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noun, 'suru' verb

going south

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noun

South America

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noun

southern sea

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noun

southern countries

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278 words found containing '南' in any position

noun

south

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conjunction, interjection (kandoushi)

amen; hail (Buddhist term)

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noun

1. south wind; southerly wind

2. summer (archaic)

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しゃくなげ

Most common form: シャクナゲ

noun

rhododendron (see also: ロードデンドロン; often written with kana only)

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noun

southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

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アフリカ

noun

South Africa

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みなみぐち

noun

south entrance

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なむさんぼう

expression, interjection (kandoushi)

Homage to the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) (see also: 三宝; Buddhist term)

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みなみがわ

noun

south side

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なむあみだぶつ

南無阿弥陀仏

expression

Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha; prayer for rebirth in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha (Buddhist term)

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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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