Kanji study

Find a kanji from its parts.

A kanji on a sign, in a manga, on a menu: you can't look it up without knowing how to read it. Pick the pieces you recognise and the list narrows with every click.

Your pieces

No piece picked yet.

The pieces

1 stroke

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The breakdown is the app's: a piece can be hard to spot, and a very simple kanji (日, 山) has no parts at all.

Kanji found

Pick a piece below to start the search.

How it works

  1. 01

    Spot one piece

    The three water drops on the left, the roof, the heart… pick the one you're sure about.

  2. 02

    Add another

    Pieces that lead nowhere switch off, so you can't follow a dead end.

  3. 03

    Open the kanji

    Meaning, readings, stroke order and the words that use it — and you can mark it “to review”.

Keep going

Sources: meanings and readings based on KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) · KanjiVG strokes © Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0) · reading selection, French translations and memory hooks: Kanzen.