Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習

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4.9
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About this app

Kanji Study aims to be a helpful and easy-to-use tool for learning Japanese kanji. The app includes SRS, flashcards, multiple choice quizzes, writing challenges, kanji and word search, custom sets and much more. Kanji Study hopes to be your essential companion for mastering kanji.

The app is not entirely free; however, the free version has no ads and offers unlimited study of beginner kanji, radicals, hiragana and katakana. The dictionary and all info screens are also free and unrestricted. The one-time upgrade unlocks the remaining kanji levels and allows you to create your own custom sets. It also supports the continued development of this project.

Main Features

Flashcard study
• Rote memorize kanji in manageable sized sets.
• View stroke animations, readings, meanings and examples.
• Customize theme, layout, displayed actions and swipe behavior.
• Assign study ratings to filter kanji out as you learn them.

Multiple-choice quizzes
• Customize quizzes to show readings, meanings, example words or sentences.
• Example words can be selected from JLPT, common vocab and favorites.
• Quiz times and distractors adapt based on your results.
• Further customize to repeat wrong answers, auto-play audio, pause after answering and more.

Writing challenges
• Improve your kanji recognition by challenging yourself to recall and write kanji.
• Learn the correct stroke order using a finely-tuned stroke detection algorithm.
• Correct strokes will snap into place and hints will appear if you are struggling.
• Detect accuracy stroke by stroke or use the self-assessment mode.

Quick kanji and word search
• Search over 6k kanji using readings, radicals, stroke counts, levels and more all in one text field.
• Search over 180k words by kanji, kana, romaji or translation language in the same one text field.
• Combine any number of criteria and see them highlighted in the results.
• Completely offline and very optimized for quick searching.

Detailed info screens
• View animated strokes, readings and meanings as well as your study time and quiz stats.
• See a breakdown of the radicals found within each kanji.
• Check out example words (grouped by the kanji readings), sentences and names.
• Explore the kanji used within each of the examples and use the breadcrumbs to navigate back.

Additional Features

★ Study kanji in various sequences including JLPT and Japanese school grades.
★ Notify yourself with custom study reminders when you haven't studied.
★ Read Japanese text with over 8k native audio files and text-to-speech support.
★ Add shortcuts to your home screen to study a particular set.
★ Use the rankings screen to make custom sets based on study stats.
★ Favorite kanji, radicals and examples for referencing later.
★ Save progress using Google Drive or local storage.
★ Customize MANY additional settings.

Add-ons

Guided Study
Continue the kanji study journey with unlimited use of the SRS module that tracks kanji and schedules them for review, optimizing your learning efficiency.

Graded Reading Sets
Learn kanji through reading. Adds 30k+ mini reading exercises graded kanji-by-kanji in the Kanji Learner's Course sequence.

Outlier Kanji Dictionary
Understand the underlying logic behind the Japanese writing system by learning how kanji actually work.

Permissions (optional)

- In-app Purchase (purchase upgrade)
- External Drive (store backup files)
- Install Shortcuts (add home screen shortcuts)
- Run at startup (reschedule notifications)
- Full network access (send analytics)

Translations

There is a volunteer translation project with contributions to over 30 languages. If you would like to help, please send me an email.
Updated on
Dec 8, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.9
52.6K reviews
Reed Paxman
December 22, 2024
Great app. You can get a lot out of it without paying, and the upgrade prices are reasonable. I recommend purchasing the full kanji dictionary, then the first graded reading set upgrade when it's on sale. The only thing it's missing is a tool specifically for learning kanji through "useful" vocabulary. There are many kanji which aren't often used on their own, and it's very difficult to learn them through self-study without common vocabulary that I can use or encounter naturally.
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Sylvia
December 25, 2024
This app is a must have for me. I learn new words so much better if I've already familiarized myself with the kanji in them with this app. You do have to be prepared to deal with a few finicky behaviors now and then; stroke recognition can be imprecise sometimes and once in a while you need to correct the score you get on a quiz, but it's easy to do so and doesn't waste your study time.
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Logan Charest
December 29, 2024
A wonderful app. Edit: I meant to give this app 5 stars and to write a little more, but I got distracted and it must have posted itself anyways. This is a wonderful app and I love the various options that I am given to study in the way that works best for me. I have been working on my japanese language skills on and off for 10 or so years now, and Kanji is one of the things that I've struggled to find good apps/methods/workbooks etc that worked with my personal study style. Thank you dev :)
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Chase Colburn
December 28, 2024
Thanks for your review. Was there anything I could improve that would make the app 5 stars?

What’s new

- Added navigation buttons to KLC sentence info screen.
- Added SRS progress sort option to kanji list screen.
- Fixed issue with importing set names.
- Fixed issue with hiding examples in info screens.