One character at a time, learned on video.
4,982 kanji, grade by grade — origin, stroke order, readings, compounds and quizzes. From the 1,026 taught in elementary school up to advanced level. About 60 seconds each.
- 4,982
- Kanji
- 6,754
- Videos
- 12
- Grades
How it works
- 壱
Watch
Origin, stroke order, readings, compounds and an example — 60 seconds per character.
- 弐
Answer
Reading, writing, stroke count, radical. Quizzing right after watching is what makes it stick.
- 参
Review on schedule
Anything you miss goes into spaced review — tomorrow, in 3 days, in a week.
The grade ladder
Credits
- KanjiVGCC BY-SA 3.0
Stroke order data (the writing animation in the videos)
- KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG)CC BY-SA 4.0
Stroke counts, readings and meanings
- kanji-dataCC0 1.0
Grade lists, JIS levels and radicals
These sources are CC BY-SA, so attribution under the same terms is required. The grade lists were cross-checked against our own data for the 1,026 elementary kanji and matched exactly.