Study Kanji in Context, Benchmark your JLPT skills

Read The Kanji is a simple, fun, intuitive quiz designed to supplement your study of Japanese kanji reading through real life examples and sentences.

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Japanese Kanji Grid Example

Latest News

Maintenance Notice

July 02, 2009

Hi!  This is just a notice that we will be doing a small amount of maintenance at 1:00 PM GMT (that’s 10:00PM in Japan, 9:00 AM US Eastern) to speed... more »

0.7 progress!

July 01, 2009

We’ve smashed a lot of bugs in the new version so far, some big and some small. Very few were real show stoppers though, which is great news.  Thanks to... more »

0.7 Update!

June 28, 2009

Hello, everyone!  We have finally been able to push through the new 0.7 update of Read The Kanji, which has many new features and changes from 0.6.5 .  The list... more »

 

Side Benefits

Read the Kanji is great for kanji reading practice, but it also extremely helpful for:
  • Learning new vocabulary
  • Improving Japanese speed reading
  • Benchmarking yourself for an upcoming JLPT test
  • Expose yourself to grammar with real life sentences
 

Learn More

For more information about Read The Kanji and how you can apply it to your kanji study, check out our About / FAQ pages to learn how it can help you study Japanese.

Also if you have any questions or comments about the program, we’d love to hear from you. We’re always trying out best to make this a fantastic study tool for both kanji beginners and veterans.