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Learn kanji by drawing them.

From your very first kanji all the way to reading a Japanese newspaper. Kanji Draw covers every kanji taught in Japanese schools and every JLPT level from N5 to N1: the 3,000 most used kanji, with pictures, sounds and your own handwriting.

Download on the App Store Unlock the lessons once, and every update is free.
  • 3,000 kanji
  • 12,000+ words with audio
  • JLPT N5–N1
PRACTICE WRITING HERE HINT WRITE | CHOOSE UNDO | CLEAR

How you remember a kanji

There are three ways to remember a kanji. Kanji Draw does all three.

A story or a picture

Write a note or draw a picture for every kanji. Snap a photo, import an image, or borrow a drawing someone in the community shared.

A sound

Japanese audio for every reading and every example word. Tap a word and hear it spoken.

Your own hand

Write the kanji again and again with your finger: first over a guide showing the stroke order, then on your own.

How it works

Study, then practice both ways.

STUDY KANJI

Make every kanji your own.

Focus on one kanji at a time. Tap it to see the stroke order, then write something that will help you remember it, or draw it a picture.

  • The words people really use today, in hiragana or romaji
  • Tap any word to hear it spoken in Japanese
  • Look words up in Jisho for hundreds of example sentences
  • Share your notes and drawings with the community
Study Kanji: a drawing of mountains above the kanji 山 on the practice grid
Example words for 雨 with readings, and the Nature lesson’s kanji
WRITE QUIZ

See the meaning, write the kanji.

You get the reading and the meaning; you write the kanji with your finger. Start on top of a guide that shows the stroke order and direction. When you’re ready, hide the hint and you’re on your own.

  • Or pick the right kanji from a grid
  • Show your own note or drawing as a hint, or swipe it away
  • You decide how much help you get
Write Quiz: the kanji being written on the practice grid, with a drawing as a hint
The kanji 人 with numbered strokes, and a drawing of a samurai
READ QUIZ

See the kanji, choose its meaning.

Now the other way around: the kanji is on the card, and you pick what it means.

Tip: practice about 10 kanji at a time.

Read Quiz: the kanji 休 with meanings to choose from

Kanji Draw for iPad

The whole lesson on one screen.

Kanji Draw is one app for iPhone and iPad. On iPad, the practice sheet, your drawing, the lesson and its words sit side by side, with plenty of room to write.

Kanji Draw on iPad: the practice sheet for 山, a drawing of mountains, the Nature lesson and its words, all on one screen
  • One appThe same Kanji Draw on your iPhone and your iPad.
  • Write with Apple PencilPress harder for a bolder stroke, like a real brush.
  • Draw with Apple PencilTilt it for broad strokes, press harder for darker lines.

What’s inside

Everything from N5 to the newspaper.

3,000kanji: every one taught in Japanese schools and every JLPT level
12,000+example words: real, everyday vocabulary, no words nobody uses anymore
Audioin Japanese for every reading and every example word
Stroke orderwith numbered strokes and direction arrows for every single kanji
elegant brush-style kanji in the textbook form used in Japanese schools
13themed lessons, from Actions and Nature to People and Time
  • Actions 875
  • Adjectives 381
  • Objects 368
  • Compounds 327
  • Nature 265
  • Body 153
  • Locations 152
  • People 139
  • Animals 110
  • Time 77
  • Numbers 66
  • Miscellaneous 63
  • Colors 24

Lessons hold hundreds of kanji each, but you set the pace: turn on just the kanji you want to study, add more little by little, and watch your collection grow.

Unlock once, grow forever.

Kanji Draw started with 333 kanji. Today it has 3,000, and every update has been free for everyone who unlocked the lessons. That’s a promise we keep.

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