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Click on any of the kanji in the list to see a full lesson for that character, including onyomi/kunyomi readings, the meaning, example sentences, related JLPT vocabulary / grammar, and more.
Learn the kanji characters in Japanese by JLPT level. Kanji list ranked by frequency, with meanings, pronunciations and writings.
Learn the kanji characters in Japanese. Lists of kanji ranked by frequency, with meanings, pronunciations and writings.
Jisho.org: Japanese Dictionary. Jisho is a powerful Japanese-English dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji, example sentences and more quickly and easily. Enter any Japanese text or English word in the search box and Jisho will search a myriad of data for you.
Romajidesu's Kanji Dictionary is a powerful and easy to use tool to lookup Japanese Kanji. You can lookup Kanji using Kanji, English, Kunyomi, Onyomi with many criteria filters like radical, JLPT levels, grade levels, number of strokes,...You also can lookup Kanji by radicals/parts which is very useful when you can not type the Kanji directly.
The Japanese writing system is a combination of three different characters: Hiragana (ひらがな), Katakana (カタカナ), and Kanji (漢字). Kanji is Chinese characters and both Hiragana and Katakana are a syllabic grapheme. For learning Japanese pronunciation, Hiragana is the most important and thus we focus on Hiragana here.
