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Kanji Dictionary

Chinese characters dictionary with over 13,000 ideograms. Complete with on, kun, nanori as well as chinese pinyin and korean hangul readings, engish meanings, radicals, stroke counts, codepoints, classification codes, dictionary indexes and stroke order diagrams in selected kanji.

Search examples

  • Search characters with English meanings, e.g. forest
  • Look up single characters, e.g.
  • Look up multiple characters, e.g. 単語林
  • Search with katakana for on'yomi, e.g. カン
  • Search with hiragana for kun'yomi, e.g. かわかす
  • Search with rōmaji for any reading, e.g. kawakasu
  • Search with pinyin, e.g. hua4
  • Search with hangul, e.g.
  • Limit results to kanji with both readings GA and hakaru, e.g. ga hakaru
  • Limit results to kanji with reading TAI and meaning "body", e.g. tai body
  • Search with codepoints, classification codes and dictionary indexes, e.g. 548c

List of supported Codepoints, Classification Codes and Dictionary Indexes

  • Unicode
  • JIS X 0208
  • JIS X 0212
  • JIS X 0213
  • SKIP
  • The Kanji Dictionary
  • Four Corner
  • De Roo
  • Classic Nelson
  • New Nelson
  • New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
  • Kanji Learners Dictionary by J. Halpern
  • Remembering The Kanji by J. Heisig
  • A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
  • Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
  • Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
  • Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi
  • A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall
  • Kanji and Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
  • A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese by F. Sakade
  • Japanese Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki
  • A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition by Henshall
  • Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask
  • The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power by D. Crowley
  • Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono
  • Japanese For Busy People by the AJLT
  • Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
  • Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig
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