Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習 v7.4.2
Chase ColburnAbout this app
Developer Description
Highly customizable kanji learning companion for your Japanese studies.
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.
What's New
- Fixed issue with refreshing set list screen.
- Updated translations.
In-app purchases
$1.99 - $29.99 per item
Version Information
- Version
- 7.4.2
- Downloads
- 1M+
- Updated on
- Dec 23, 2025
- Released
- Apr 4, 2015
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習 users say on Google Play
Love the app. I especially like the writing exercises modes and the offline dictionary(they are free). There are some add-ons(paid with free samples, but there are good promotions periodically) and they enhance the app very well (I bought the Graded Reading Set), depending on how/what you want to learn you might buy others, and its a good world when you have a choice. Overall I would say that this is a great app for practice/reference but for any grammar need, I prefer to use a systematic book.
This app is really comprehensive, not only showing you the characters and giving practice exercises, but showing you how each character looks in different fonts and handwriting forms and giving extensive developmental histories and examples of usage. My one criticism is that the app is so multilayered, it can be hard to navigate.
I love it
This app is really good but my purchase KEEPS getting reverted it's soo annoying
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