The Kanji Map

The Kanji Map is a Japanese language learning tool that shows kanji information and decomposition in graph form.

Try it online at thekanjimap.com

or thekanjimap.netlify.app (backup)

Kanji information

Displayed kanji information (where available):

• Type: jōyō kanji (taught in school), jinmeiyō kanji (used in names) or neither
• JLPT (Japanese-Language Proficiency) Test level
• Frequency rank out of 2500 most used kanji found in newspapers
• Stroke count
• Meaning
• Kunyomi (Japanese reading of the kanji)
• Onnyomi (Chinese/Sino-Japanese reading of the kanji)
• Examples with audio, kunyomi and onyomi
• Radical with kunyomi and meaning

Credits

• Kanji and decomposition is based on KanjiVG, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence.
• List of radicals are provided by github.com/sylhare/kanji, licensed under MIT.
• Stroke animations are provided by animCJK, released under the Arphic Public License.
• Kanji, examples and radical information is provided by JISHO.org, sourcing from multiple open source dictionaries and Kanji alive, released under CC 4.0.
• Graph is created using react-force-graph and three-spritetext, released under the MIT license.
• Handwritten kanji recognition uses handwriting.js, released under the MIT license.

Donations

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Donations are used to pay for hosting, maintenance costs and improvements.