Learn Japanese! - Kanji Way

Now in English, Arabic and Turkish. Trace all 1,750 characters in real stroke order — four to a lesson, about five minutes a day.

You can read 日 on a sign and still freeze with a pen in your hand.

Recognising a character and being able to produce one are separate skills. Almost every app trains only the first. This one trains the second.

Each character is drawn from real stroke-order data. When the turn comes, the app watches the whole motion: where the pen goes down, which direction it travels, the shape, whether it finished. Begin a line at the wrong end and it says which end was right, because "wrong" on its own teaches nobody.

HOW A LESSON GOES

Four characters, three short rounds, about five minutes.

学 Meet them — each draws itself, beside a word it appears in 書 Write them — trace the guide, green dot to gold 読 Prove it — reading and meaning from memory, two options

Only a run with nothing missed earns 皆伝.

INSIDE

• 1,750 characters across 439 lessons, N5 through N1 • 8,131 words, so nothing is studied in isolation • On'yomi and kun'yomi in kana, not romaji • Spoken readings, using the Japanese voice on your device • Every level unlocked at launch — begin where you actually are

A HABIT, NOT A COURSE

Four characters is small enough to manage on a Tuesday. The app keeps a streak, fills a week strip readable at a glance, and sends one reminder at an hour you pick — scheduled locally by the phone itself.

QUIET BY DESIGN

No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no advertising, no trackers, no third-party code. Everything works in aeroplane mode and stays on the device. The privacy label reads Data Not Collected, and that is accurate.

Interface in English, العربية and Türkçe, right-to-left included.

FREE AND PAID

The opening three lessons of every level cost nothing — N1 included, so you can try the one you care about rather than the easiest. A subscription opens the remaining 424, weekly or yearly.

CREDITS

Stroke data: KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2, Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (CC BY-SA 4.0). Word lists: open-anki-jlpt-decks (MIT). All practice material is original here; no past JLPT paper is reproduced.

Kanji Way is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the Japan Foundation, Japan Educational Exchanges and Services, or any body administering the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test.

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