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Kanji alive A free study tool for reading and writing kanji Menu Skip to content Overview News Resources User Guide Troubleshooting Fonts Introduction to Kanji The 214 Kanji Radicals Supported Textbooks and Study Lists Notes for Instructors Testimonials Feedback Credits 日本語 Kanji aliveについて 使用説明 トラブルシューティング フォント 漢字について 検索可能になっている教科書および漢字リスト 先生方へ クレジット Overview Welcome to Kanji alive , a web application ( https://app.kanjialive.com ) designed to help Japanese language students of all levels learn to read and write kanji . Click for full-sized image Kanji alive is a resource for learning kanji , dedicated to helping you open the door to the fascinating characters that form the written Japanese language. All of the content in the application was created and reviewed with painstaking attention to detail by experienced Japanese instructors in order to help you best study, practice and retain kanji . Our Japanese language data and media files (images, sounds, animations, and fonts) are freely available to anyone for re-use under a Creative Commons license. In addition, developers can draw on our data for their applications from our free public API and access the source code and contribute improvements to the Kanji alive web application on GitHub. Key Features of Kanji alive Easily search for 1235 kanji in Japanese, romaji or English, by meaning, pronunciation, stroke number or different aspects of a kanji’s radical. You can also search for kanji by lesson in popular textbooks (e.g. Genki), by Grade level or study list (e.g. AP Exam). Multiple search terms can even be combined together and shared with others. Read more or watch a demo video . View the kanji in your search results sorted by stroke number or else grouped together first by radical or kanji stroke number and then sorted again by the canonical order of their radicals. This will help you understand how kanji are related to radicals and provides a clear structure for even large sets of kanji in your search results. Read more or watch a demo video . A hand-written kanji animation To help you write kanji correctly, all our kanji animations are hand-written in the style experienced in common, daily use — with a regular pen, not a calligraphic brush or generated by a computer. The model animations can be paused and reviewed at any point, stroke by stroke, via their stroke order diagrams or by using the animation playback controls. Read more or watch a demo video . Detailed information on radicals Learn how a radical lends meaning to its kanji. View an image of each kanji’s radical, its name, meaning, stroke number, historical derivation, and (for important radicals) its position in the kanji. Read more or watch a demo video . Mnemonic Hint Next to each kanji you will find vivid mnemonic hints carefully crafted to help you associate the components of a kanji to its meaning. Read more or watch a demo video . Examples of common compound words and their translations See and hear how the kanji you are learning are used in context in up to twelve carefully selected example words, together with audio clips of their pronunciations by native male and female speakers. Read more or watch a demo video . Compare the hand-written kanji animations to model kanji typefaces in several characteristic and widely used Japanese styles: Kyokashotai , Mincho , Gothic, and Maru. You can also view each kanji in the historical Tensho script , the calligraphic Gyosho script , the decorative, Endo-period Kanteiryu script, and in Suzumushi , a playful, award-winning contemporary typeface. Read more or watch a demo video . Recommended Kanji Dictionaries Discover additional contexts and meanings for each kanji and more example sentences via a custom web link to Kenkyusha’s online Luminous dictionary or by using the kanji reference numbers for the Classic Nelson and Kodansha dictionaries. Read more or watch a demo video . Kanji alive is very easy to use. To quickly familiarize you with the Kanji alive web app ( https://app.kanjialive.com ) we have prepared a User Guide , several short demo videos and a handy Quick Reference guide in the app itself. Any of these resources can be used to learn how to use Kanji alive . Japanese language instructors may also wish to read our Notes for Instructors which explain our pedagogic principles and design decisions. Finally, especially for beginners, we have prepared two online resources which cover the history of kanji , stroke order basics, and radicals. These are the Introduction to Kanji and the 214 traditional kanji radicals and their variants . We encourage anyone who has just begun to study kanji to review these documents carefully before using Kanji alive in earnest. Thank you for your interest in Kanji alive! Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or comments. Back to the top KANJI ALIVE について Kanji aliveは、漢字を学ぶ日本語学習者のために開発されたウェブ・ベースの無償漢字学習教材です。 このページにはKanji aliveの特徴が書いてあります。詳細はメニューの日本語内にある「Kanji aliveについて」をご覧ください。 Twitter Follow us on Twitter @kanjialive for the latest news and updates. Recent News Kanji alive v2 is now available Kanji alive v2 is ready for testing An early look at the next version of Kanji alive Kanji alive language data and media files are now freely available as open source Added support for “TOBIRA: Gateway to Advanced Japanese Learning Through Content and Multimedia” A list of all kanji supported by Kanji alive Added support for “Intermediate Kanji Book”, Vol. 1 Using Kanji alive as a Mac OS X desktop application A better Japanese font for Windows web browsers Results of last month’s user survey Please take our user survey! Kanji alive team photographs Re-designed Kanji alive website Archive of past updates (2003 – 2011) Search Kanjialive.com Search for: Proudly powered by WordPress...