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
Mar 20, 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

4.6
53.7K reviews
Tim Favro
December 8, 2024
It's unfortunate that the other Japanese learning apps aren't as affordable and as good as this one. One solo developer produces this. He cares and it shows. It's so feature rich that it's a little overwhelming at first. With it's add-ons, upgrades and other flexible features. But it's nessarry to learn something as complicated as Kanji. The Tanuki character is cute too! I'm excited to see what updates come in the future!
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Leopard20
April 26, 2022
One of the most annoying problems for me is that when I use text to speech on sentences the words don't have a consistent tone. i.e the played sentence "KiNda fEEls LIke tHiS". If you simply type the sentence in a text editor and play it back, or use Aedict, you'll notice the difference. I think this is because of the spaces you put in the spellings between multiple kanjis of the same word (e.g. "kan ji" instead of "kanji"), which causes text to speech to utter them as separate words
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Chase Colburn
April 26, 2022
This is an issue specific to your device. I responded to your email and will look into workarounds. In the meantime, switching the text to speech engine to Google in the device settings should fix it.
Celia Triplett
April 29, 2025
Highly Recommend! The free version is a huge help!!! I'm self-learning and have gone through a ton of apps/videos/resources. This is the one that has been the most comprehensive and customizable to my way of learning. Free version includes Kana and Radicals with tons of customizing speed, writing, etc testing. I've gone and bought both the guided study and custom/kanji sets because it's been so helpful! ありがとう、ございます!
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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.