Look up any kanji
Find Kanji under Study in the sidebar. The list covers 2,383 kanji: every Jōyō kanji plus the N5 to N1 kanji lists, grouped by JLPT level.
Don't know the kanji yet? Search by meaning. Type water and you'll find 水.
Everything about one kanji on one page
Each kanji has its own page with:
- Meaning in English
- On and kun readings
- Stroke count and the school grade it's taught in Japan
- JLPT level, plus the level where it first appears in vocabulary. These often differ: 手 isn't on the N5 kanji list, but you'll meet it in N5 words.
- Variant forms, like 頰 and 頬
See every word that uses it
Below the readings, Words with 食 lists every word that uses the kanji, grouped by how it's read. Switch between ショク, たべる, and the rest to see which words use which reading. You can search the list, show only popular words, and save words or mark them as Known, just like the vocabulary list.
Jump in from anywhere
- From a word page: kanji in the title are now links. Open 食べる, click 食, and you're on its kanji page.
- From search: type a single kanji in the search bar and its kanji page shows up in the results.
Where the data comes from
Kanji meanings, readings, and school grades come from KANJIDIC2 (Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke counts come from KanjiVG (Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0). JLPT levels are unofficial: the JLPT hasn't published an official kanji list since 2010, so we use Jonathan Waller's lists (CC BY).