Kanji Master Global Edition

Learn Japanese kanji the way children in Japan do - grade by grade, stroke by stroke.

Kanji Master follows Japan's official school curriculum, covering all 2,136 Joyo kanji from Grade 1 through high school. Every kanji is explained in your own language.

A TEACHER FOR EVERY LEVEL
Five teachers guide you as you climb: Sakura for Grade 1, a Ninja for Grade 2, Mt. Fuji for Grades 3-6, a Samurai for junior high, and Daruma for high school. Each explains what a kanji means and how it works inside real words, then reads the explanation aloud.

STROKE ORDER, ANIMATED
Watch every stroke drawn in the correct order, numbered. Switch between brush, bold brush, pen, marker and pencil, and compare textbook, mincho, gothic and rounded typefaces.

CAN'T READ IT? DRAW IT.
Write a kanji you saw on a sign or in a book and find it instantly. No reading required.

SEARCH IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Look up kanji by meaning, reading or romaji in Korean, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese.

WORKS OFFLINE
All data lives on your device. Study on the train, on a plane, anywhere.

FREE
Grade 1 (80 kanji), 46 basic kana and 300 sample words, plus 3 handwriting searches. Free forever, no account needed.

WORDS & KANA
4,853 everyday Japanese words for basics, daily life, travel and work, each with example sentences and quizzes, plus stroke order for all hiragana and katakana.

FULL VERSION - ONE-TIME PURCHASE
Unlock all 2,136 Joyo kanji from Grade 2 through high school, all 4,853 words, all 163 kana and unlimited handwriting search. Pay once and keep it forever. No subscription.

Stroke order data (c) Ulrich Apel and the KanjiVG Project, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).
Dictionary data from JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Kana font: Klee One (SIL OFL).
Curriculum based on the MEXT Grade-Level Kanji Table (2017 announcement). The junior high / high school split follows the Kanji Kentei grade allocations (grade 3, and pre-2 / 2).

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