Kanji Dictionary

Kanji is a type of Japanese writing system, based on symbols which represent words or ideas. Kanji can be combined to form a word, or can represent a word itself. It was originally founded on logographic Chinese characters.

• Search for Kanji in our Japanese Kanji dictionary, so that you can translate Kanji to English or English to Kanji
• search using any combination of Japanese, English, rōmaji or kana
• combine multiple readings or readings and meanings for more accurate results, e.g. ken miru or ken ticket
• use wildcards: * (asterisk) for zero or more characters, _ (underscore) for exactly one character (wildcards work only on kanji readings but you can use them with rōmaji)
• put English keywords in quotation marks to search for the exact phrase

Tags

Add tags to your keywords to narrow down search results to most common used characters using these tags:

#jlpt

JLPT - any level

#jlpt[1-5]

JLPT Level N1 - N5 (e.g. #jlpt3)

#joyo

Jōyō Kanji - whole set

#joyo[1-6]

Jōyō Kanji 1st - 6th Grade (e.g. #joyo1)

#joyohs

Jōyō Kanji High-School Grade

#jinmeiyo

Jinmeiyō supplementary names set

The kanji from above mentioned sets are also grouped into easily exportable and printable vocabulary lists:

• JLPT vocabulary lists
• Jōyō Kanji vocabulary lists

Credits

Based on the KANJIDIC2 project, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used in conformance with the Group's licence.

Stroke order and radical data from the KanjiVG project by Ulrich Apel © 2009-2015 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Kanji radicals data from kradfile-u. Copyright Michael Raine, Jim Breen, EDRDG, Jim Rose, The KanjiCafe.com (licence).