Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習

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4.8
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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
Oct 23, 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

4.8
51.9K reviews
yowo
August 1, 2024
I am in love with the app. As an advanced student who already passed JLPT N2, the app is still so useful. I purchased the "Unlock Kanji" addon and the "Outlier Essentials" (best purchase yet!!). The frequent sales made these purchases very affordable and worth it. This app has been designed with the user in mind, almost all screens are customizable. I like the review system too though this could be a bit more customizable, so that you can change more which info to quiz yourself on.
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Chase Colburn
October 25, 2019
Thanks for the review! Pricing is tricky. I do sales from time to time and announce them on twitter. Good luck with your studies!
A Google user
October 17, 2018
This app feels really complete. There are a number of modes for testing yourself including writing and a quiz. You can tag the kanji that have become familiar and choose to review just the ones you're still struggling with, or review any percent of the total with kanji you made the most mistakes with. In that way time is never wasted on reviewing kanji you already got a good grip of. If you combine that with the fact that it's an app that can be used in situations where time is otherwise wasted, such as trains and boring birthday parties, it makes learning kanji so incredibly easy and efficient that I made so much more progress using this app as opposed to the many dreadful hours spent on learning it from a book, that was likely a lot more expense than this app. I would absolutely recommend this app to everyone serious about learning kanji.
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A Google user
December 25, 2019
I love and highly recommend this app. I'm learning Japanese just for fun, but this is also an app for the serious learner because it's so feature-rich with a very fast, intuitive and clean yet good-looking UI. I found no other kanji app like it. I love that it covers kanji ánd kana, the option to make custom sets is awesome, writing practice is fun, the dictionary/search is outstanding and the extensive word/sentence examples per kanji help a LOT for memorizing. Upgrade is worth every penny!
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What's new

- Fixed issue with authenticating for Google Drive.
- Fixed issue with example highlighting during quizzes.
- Updated translations.