Kanji Castle

Kanji Castle is a game designed to improve your ability to read kanji. The puzzles are fun and simple to play yet serve as an effective tool in learning.

Features:

・Hiragana swipe input

・Jōyō kanji

・Comfortable pace

・Japanese and English definitions

・Quality learning

・Playable offline

・Daily puzzle

・Thousands of levels

Whether new to Japanese or a master of the language, we welcome players of all levels to try out the game. We do, however, recommend that you know hiragana to fully enjoy the game. Players will have to swipe the hiragana, character to character, to form phonetic readings of kanji words to complete a puzzle. Beginners will be glad to know that hints are available to help solve each word. To test even the most advanced players, some puzzles feature uncommon words and readings. The puzzles are not timed so you may progress at your own pace.

Puzzles are restricted to contain only jōyō kanji. That is the list of 2136 characters specified by the Japanese Ministry of Education. We have selected this list to ensure that all the kanji are relevant. Each individual kanji as well as the kanji words have both English and Japanese definitions available offline. Tap on words you are unsure of to reveal its readings and meanings. You can also play the daily challenge to practice kanji used in sentences.

New puzzles and features can be created with your support. We are dedicated to bringing you the best experience and appreciate any comments and suggestions.

We have taken steps ensure our puzzles do not contain inappropriate content. Please note, however, that due to the procedural generation of words and definitions this may not always be the case.

Play over 1000 levels for free!