Japanese Kanji Dictionary

Kanji dictionary is a Japanese-English dictionary. It shows you how to write Japanese characters (Kanji) in correct stroke order. Ever wonder which is the first stroke of a Kanji character during your Japanese writing lesson? Japanese kanji stroke order is sometimes confusing at the beginning of learning. Besides Hiragana and Katakana words, there are many kanji characters to remember. With our Japanese dictionary app, we list out every stroke of the common-used characters so that you can have better idea on the stroke order.

Key features of our kanji dictionary:

- 13108 Kanji characters included in the Japanese dictionary. Example compounds are included.

- 6400+ Japanese characters have stroke order illustration. We will continue updating the stroke database.

- Stroke-by-stroke animation of Kanji character

- Simple English meaning of each character

- On and Kun pronunciation.

- Hiragana and Katakana chart

- JLPT N5 to N1 characters

- Copy function - long press the Japanese character to copy it to clipboard. Copy compounds to clipboard is also supported.

In short, it is a handy Japanese dictionary for learners at initial stage of learning how to write Japanese Kanji.

Similar to other Kanji dictionary app/website such as Jisho.org and Tangorin.com, our app uses several open source projects. We are immensely thankful to the people who work on these projects and make them available for everyone studying Japanese to benefit from.

JMDict - A Japanese-Multilingual dictionary with many words definitions. We mainly use the English part.

KanjiDict2 - The 13000+ characters is actually from KanjiDict2. Most kanji comes with English meaning.

The stroke order is a SVG file and file generation is inspired by KanjiVG and Makemeahanzi project(a Chinese character project) hosted in Github.