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The next kanji

The 181 kanji at roughly N4 level. Tap any kanji to watch it drawn stroke by stroke, with its readings and the words it appears in.

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Levels are a guide only. The JLPT has never published an official kanji list.

Tap a kanji to see its stroke order, readings, and words that use it.

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Every kanji has two kinds of reading

The on reading (shown in katakana) came from Chinese and shows up in compound words. The kun reading (in hiragana) is the Japanese word the kanji was assigned to, and it is usually what you use when the kanji stands alone. Learning one without the other will not let you read, so the fastest route is to learn the example words rather than the readings on their own.

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