After the kana

漢字旅ノートessential kanji

You don't memorize one sound per character. Get the meaning first, then pick up the different readings inside real words.

0/ known kanji to meaning

Practice

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Reference

The kanji chart

Work through it ten at a time, or re-read it in modern Japanese frequency order. Tap a cell to open its words and contexts.
The green marks track kanji → meaning.

Selection

Why these kanji?

We start from a frequency core of and a travel core of , then add a corpus extension of that the reviewed corpus can actually teach. Characters with no real words or sentences behind them are left out.

Frequency: FineFreq Japanese Han characters (Xu 2025, CC BY 4.0) · lesson order informed by the MEXT grade-by-grade list · scope informed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs jōyō kanji list