Japanese Kanji Study - 漢字学習

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About this app

Kanji Study aims to be a helpful and easy-to-use tool for learning Japanese kanji. The app includes SRS, flashcards, multiple choice quizzes, writing challenges, kanji and word search, custom sets and much more. Kanji Study hopes to be your essential companion for mastering kanji.

The app is not entirely free; however, the free version has no ads and offers unlimited study of beginner kanji, radicals, hiragana and katakana. The dictionary and all info screens are also free and unrestricted. The one-time upgrade unlocks the remaining kanji levels and allows you to create your own custom sets. It also supports the continued development of this project.

Main Features

Flashcard study
• Rote memorize kanji in manageable sized sets.
• View stroke animations, readings, meanings and examples.
• Customize theme, layout, displayed actions and swipe behavior.
• Assign study ratings to filter kanji out as you learn them.

Multiple-choice quizzes
• Customize quizzes to show readings, meanings, example words or sentences.
• Example words can be selected from JLPT, common vocab and favorites.
• Quiz times and distractors adapt based on your results.
• Further customize to repeat wrong answers, auto-play audio, pause after answering and more.

Writing challenges
• Improve your kanji recognition by challenging yourself to recall and write kanji.
• Learn the correct stroke order using a finely-tuned stroke detection algorithm.
• Correct strokes will snap into place and hints will appear if you are struggling.
• Detect accuracy stroke by stroke or use the self-assessment mode.

Quick kanji and word search
• Search over 6k kanji using readings, radicals, stroke counts, levels and more all in one text field.
• Search over 180k words by kanji, kana, romaji or translation language in the same one text field.
• Combine any number of criteria and see them highlighted in the results.
• Completely offline and very optimized for quick searching.

Detailed info screens
• View animated strokes, readings and meanings as well as your study time and quiz stats.
• See a breakdown of the radicals found within each kanji.
• Check out example words (grouped by the kanji readings), sentences and names.
• Explore the kanji used within each of the examples and use the breadcrumbs to navigate back.

Additional Features

★ Study kanji in various sequences including JLPT and Japanese school grades.
★ Notify yourself with custom study reminders when you haven't studied.
★ Read Japanese text with over 8k native audio files and text-to-speech support.
★ Add shortcuts to your home screen to study a particular set.
★ Use the rankings screen to make custom sets based on study stats.
★ Favorite kanji, radicals and examples for referencing later.
★ Save progress using Google Drive or local storage.
★ Customize MANY additional settings.

Add-ons

Guided Study
Continue the kanji study journey with unlimited use of the SRS module that tracks kanji and schedules them for review, optimizing your learning efficiency.

Graded Reading Sets
Learn kanji through reading. Adds 30k+ mini reading exercises graded kanji-by-kanji in the Kanji Learner's Course sequence.

Outlier Kanji Dictionary
Understand the underlying logic behind the Japanese writing system by learning how kanji actually work.

Permissions (optional)

- In-app Purchase (purchase upgrade)
- External Drive (store backup files)
- Install Shortcuts (add home screen shortcuts)
- Run at startup (reschedule notifications)
- Full network access (send analytics)

Translations

There is a volunteer translation project with contributions to over 30 languages. If you would like to help, please send me an email.
Updated on
20 Mar 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families policy

Ratings and reviews

4,9
53,7K reviews
NA
01 April 2025
very good, however if it is possible to add a "travel mode" that would allow you to keep your streak when changing time zones. I just lost a nearly 600 day streak because of a timezone change 😭 update: following the below comment I used the "fixed study streak" option in the troubleshooting section of the settings and this fixed my issue. thank you for the great app!
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Chase Colburn
31 March 2025
I'm the settings, under troubleshooting, there is an option to fix your streak if it has been less than a week. I hope this helps!
Roman
22 March 2025
When I installed this app I loved it. However, after taking a real japanese class, I realized it had left me with bad study habits. The daily practice feature consistently presents you with new readings, so you don't know if you're learning or reviewing content. This blurred the line between what I knew and what I thought I knew, so I never truly mastered any content while slowly building up frustration every day from trying to recall things that I was not capable of recalling.
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Chase Colburn
22 March 2025
The app is meant to be a supplement to your normal studies, allowing you to customize what you study, including the readings. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
K Baker
25 February 2025
I love the study experience I get in this app! The study load tends to be lighter than in other apps, and if you get behind and buried under a pile of reviews, there is a rapid study option that will help you dig yourself back out again. You can start with just the free version and see if it works for you. For me, I found the paid add-ons more than worth the cost. And you can choose the ones that seem most valuable to you, it's not all or nothing. Also the developer is super responsive!
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What's new

- Updated the Outlier Kanji Dictionary to v1.10.
- Added 285 Outlier Essentials entries.
- Added 71 Outlier Expert Info entries.
- Added 143 Outlier System Data entries.
- Added Outlier Kanji Dictionary content to radical info screen.
- Added linking dialog for components in Outlier entries.
- Added new icon for kanji containing Outlier Expert info.
- Added link to source kanji when tapping meanings after reviews.
- Added additional lookup options.