I built Kanji Book to aid in my own learning of kanji. I wanted something that would let me learn the 2136 jōyō kanji at my own pace. I was inspired by Japanese style journals which extensively use highlighters and stickers to brighten up the otherwise dull contents. In Kanji Book, you'll build your own workbook which tracks your progress visually. You can learn as many kanji as you want each day. I find that 2 or 3 is a good cadence. I tend to play 3 or 4 times a day, whenever I can find a spare 5 minutes. I try to use my phone as a tool, not a distraction. I hope you find some value in Kanji Book. Let me know how many you learn!
As you play, the language of the workbook changes to reflect your knowledge. Practice all aspects of kanji: readings, drawing, recall, definition, and recollection. Use your Kanji Book as simple flashcards or test yourself with 25 random questions. Once you have enough kanji to form compound kanji vocabulary words, you'll end each session with a grid of kanji which you can use to form vocabulary words.
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Is Kanji Book free?
Yes, Kanji Book is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Kanji Book legit?
✅ The Kanji Book app appears to be high-quality and legitimate. Users are very satisfied.
Very unhelpful. Doesn’t provide name of the kanji. Also when your stuck with 29 kanji to try and figure out a compound pair, the hint is worse then useless. Try giving it to the person MAYBE? so they do t have to quit and retry it again and again
Feature request…
I love how straightforward this app is…but s couple more features would take it to another level:
1) Regarding the stroke hints, if a kanji has a radical that’s been previously taught, give that radical/kanji as a hint. Even native Japanese speakers learn kanji based on component radicals.
2) The ability to edit my list and add kanji learned outside the app. I’ve learned so many new kanji since starting to use this app and it’d be cool to see that reflected.
Super efficient!
This has helped me so much and has given me a lot of motivation! I really recommend it if you want a fast and efficient way of learning kanji!
Great tool!
A great tool for beginners!!
Great, engaging, educational!
Super fun, clear, simple, and you can learn at your own pace. A few small things I don’t like: no choice between kun or on, no audio pronounciation, and no information on radicals. But very enjoyable.
Kanji made fun and cute!
I just started and already know about 300+ kanji going in. I love how it is self paced, no timers, you can revisit cards as often as you like (with cute incentives), and the program shows you the stroke order! My favorite little surprise was the compound words game where you can build your vocabulary and discover just how practical a pictographic text can be (no furigana given, but I have my jisho for that). I would have liked audio, but if you know your hiragana going into using this app, you are SET. Love this product! As a teacher of languages myself, I highly recommend it. Thank you for making and keeping it free!
Best app for Kanji!! But I have a small request
I love this app, it is very good and provides stroke order, great simple tests, and has both on’yomi and kun’yomi written in hiragana(good practice)!! Nothing negative about this app.
My only suggestion is that for compounds, we can have a way to see how to pronounce them. Trying to figure out to use on’yomi or kun’yomi is difficult since there are many exceptions to the general rule.
Thank you for this great app, and for making it free! If there is anyway to donate and/or support it in anyway, let me know!
love design and UX
love the look of this app—it’s so different from all its competitors but it’s really not helpful that the app doesn’t teach pronunciation by way of audio or even just hiragana. so while it’s super useful for visual memorization it’s really not for speaking. and if it is that this options is available, then it wasn’t obvious to me and could then use some improvement!
Amazing
This app is so well made I love it so much!!! I can repeat as many times as I want and it makes learning kanji really simple!
This may be perfect!
Forgive me for the unprofessional review, but this may be the best kanji learning app(for me personally)! No ads, I can practice writing, teaches the Kun and On, the meaning of the kanji, and the cherry on top is I can test myself! Whoever helped develop this, thank you for making kanji easier to learn!
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