Learn Kanji

Kanji is one of four sets of characters used in the writings of modern Japan in addition to kana (hiragana, katakana) and romaji. Kanji was formerly also called mana (真名) or shinji (真字) to distinguish it from Cana.

Hanzi and kanji are the Chinese and the Japanese pronunciations of the term 漢字 that is used in both languages. It refers to the Chinese characters that both languages make use of in their writing systems. Chinese is written entirely in Chinese, and Japanese makes heavy use of Chinese characters.

In this application there are several features that are interesting for our use.

-Beginner Level (N5)

-Basic (N4)

-Intermediete (N3)

-Advance (N2)

-Radicals (C)

-Kanji Testing

et's start with a super-world difference between Chinese and kanji. Despite being the same writing system (or at least very similar to each other), Chinese and kanji serve entirely different languages. The US is such, the Chinese pronunciation of a Chinese is usually very different to the Japanese pronunciation of the kanji equivalent (sometimes the pronunciations may be somewhat similar, though).

This actually extends further than the Chinese and Japanese. Korean also uses Chinese characters, calling them hanja (한자), and the pronunciations are somewhat different again (although closer to Chinese than Japanese, as far as I know).