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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:

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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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283 word matches found for '文' using reading 'も'

かしらもじ

noun

1. initials; initialism

2. first letter of a word

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noun

1. upper case letters; large characters; capital letter (see also: 小文字)

2. the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big" (this meaning is restricted to reading だいもんじ)

(click the word to view an additional 1 reading and 1 meaning, examples and links)

noun

lower case letters (see also: 大文字)

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noun

1. European writing; cross-wise writing

2. Western language

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noun

arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

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Most common form: 絵もじ

noun

emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph

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す

noun

sushi (see also: おすもじ; archaic)

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にほんごもじ

日本語文字

noun

Japanese character

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さ

noun

fish; mackerel (see also: 魚, 鯖; female term or language; archaic)

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noun

triangular pattern of objects (from the shape of 品)

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なまえもじ

noun

name character (computer terminology)

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おんなもじ

noun

woman's handwriting; hiragana

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おとこもじ

noun

man's handwriting; kanji

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こ

noun

1. koi carp (see also: 鯉; female term or language; archaic)

2. flour (see also: 小麦粉; female term or language; archaic)

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noun

1. spicebush; Lindera umbrellata

2. toothpick

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い

noun

squid (see also: 烏賊; archaic; female term or language)

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noun

1. capital letter

2. first character of a dictionary entry

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noun

gold or gilt letters

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ちゅうかんもじ

noun

intermediate character (computer terminology)

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なまえかいしもじ

名前開始文字

noun

name start character (computer terminology)

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ふせいもじ

noun

illegal character (computer terminology)

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お

noun, 'suru' verb

personal meeting (esp. used by females) (see also: お目にかかる)

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noun

handwritten letter; handwritten character (computer terminology)

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noun

1. two (written) characters

2. Chinese chive; garlic chive (Allium tuberosum) (see also: 韮; archaic; female term or language)

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せんこうもじ

noun

leading character

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noun

letter (computer terminology)

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noun

Litsea cubeba

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noun

Lindera triloba (species of spicebush) (often written with kana only)

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に

noun

garlic (Allium sativum) (see also: ニンニク; secret language of court ladies; archaic; female term or language)

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noun

ornate initial; capital letters; flowers planted to form characters

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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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