Kanji Today is a place where learners of Japanese can collaborate and share ideas on how to memorize kanji. For each character, you can post the tricks that work best for you, and you can learn from others’ ideas too. We also discuss memorization techniques and other topics related to mastering kanji.
・Levels cover JLPT Kanji lists.
・All words ranked by usefulness. Over 100 bogus JOYO kanji cut.
・Over 1000 hints to tell look-a-like kanji apart.
・Particles taught WITH the words.
・Create your own lessons and don’t fritter away your time trying to memorize kanji on your own.
・Tracking your learning progress by seeing which kanji you already remembered by mark.
・Based on Heisig's decomposition of the kanji into simple primitive components.
・To learn a kanji, you create a mental image or story which includes the primitives in the kanji.
・Images and stories can also contain previously-learned kanji.
・View animated strokes, readings and meanings as well as your study time and quiz stats.
・See a breakdown of the radicals found within each kanji.
・Check out example words (grouped by the kanji readings), sentences and names.
・Explore the kanji used within each of the examples and use the breadcrumbs to navigate back.
・Drill characters in manageable sized sets.
・View stroke animations and toggle the visibility of readings and associated meanings.
・Tap a reading to show a list of example words that use that reading.
・Swipe to quickly launch writing practice and view additional information.
・Assign study ratings which allows you to filter kanji as you learn them.
・Customize quizzes to show either readings, associated meanings, example words or sentences.
・Example words can be selected from JLPT and common vocab, as well as your favorited examples.
・Quiz timer and distractors adapt based on previous quiz results.
・Further customize with options to repeat wrong answers, remove the timer, pause after answering and more.
・Improve your kanji recognition by challenging yourself to recall and draw the characters.
・Learn the correct stroke order using the finely-tuned stroke detection algorithm.
・Strokes will snap into place when correctly drawn and hints will appear if you are struggling.
Japanese learner from basic to intermedite (around level JLPT N5, N4, N3). By giving learner many tools to study from flashcards, customizable quizzes to kanji challenges and also marking remembered words.
The one-time upgrade unlocks the remaining kanji study groups and allows you to create your own custom sets. It also supports the continued development of this project.
Search over 2500 kanji using readings, radicals, stroke counts, levels and more all in one text field.
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