This page offers up the 214 Kanji radicals along with their names, mnemonic names, and hyperlinked Kanji that contain the relevant radical (clicking these characters brings up all their relevant information along with compound words that contain them).
Source: “Thomas Watkins Ryner” | Subject: Kanji
Well, this is the Kanji a Day and Grammar a Day email service from yours truly – just adding a link to it here to be thorough…
Source: “Yookoso.com” | Subjects: Grammar, Kanji
Japanese school children first learn hiragana and katakana, then 1006 kanji characters (Education Kanji) through grade one to six. With “Kanji Land” lessons, you will learn all of the 1006 kanji characters.
A new kanji character is introduced every day. First you will learn 80 kanji characters which are taught in grade one at Japanese school, then 160 for grade two, and it goes … [ Read more ]
Source: “About.com / Namiko Abe” | Subject: Kanji
The Java Kanji Flashcard 500 project is designed to help students of written Japanese learn the 500 most commonly occuring Chinese characters, or kanji. This Java applet displays Japanese in any browser that supports Java 1.0. You do not need a Japanese browser or operating system to study these kanji.
Each kanji character is displayed on a “card” containing a large kanji character, its on … [ Read more ]
Source: “Stephen Ryner Jr.” | Subject: Kanji
This 8 page .pdf document is one of the free sample documents from Lawrence Howell’s Kanji Master Program. It lists and categorizes the 214 Kanji radicals.
Source: “Lawrence J. Howell” | Subject: Kanji
Find lots of useful background information on Kanji on this page.
– Section I A Brief History of the Characters
– Section II The Four Types of Characters
– Section III Points of Note Regarding the Characters
– Section IV ON and KUN Readings of the Characters in Japan
Source: “Lawrence J. Howell” | Subject: Kanji
Lawrence Howell, creator of the Kanji Master Program, has put together this interesting and informative Kanji FAQ.
Source: “Lawrence J. Howell” | Subject: Kanji
Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) offers this short but informative explanation of what kanji are and where they come from – good for beginners.
Source: “Wikipedia” | Subject: Kanji
The 214 traditional radicals, arranged according to stroke count, along with their Japanese names and the English names commonly associated with them (with thanks to Prof. David Mosher). Part of the Kanji Clinic site but seemed worthy of its own entry.
Source: “Mary Sisk Noguchi / Prof. David Mosher” | Subject: Kanji
Mary Noguchi is a proffessor at Meijiro University who writes a column on learning Kanji for the Japan Times. Her homepage has all of her columns, other articles, reviews of Kanji learning materials, and links to other Kanji-related sites.
Source: “Mary Sisk Noguchi” | Subject: Kanji
For Japanese As a Second Language (JSL) learners, a Japanese-English character dictionary is much more than a reference tool: It is also the most comprehensive self-instructional tool available for learning new kanji and vocabulary. JSL learners in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s relied on the “grandfather” of modern Japanese-English character dictionaries, Andrew Nelson’s The Modern Reader’s Japanese-English Character Dictionary, (1962). Owing to the appearance during … [ Read more ]
Source: “Mary Sisk Noguchi” | Subjects: Kanji, Translate
Hans Wadsten has put together what he calls a portal but what I think you will really find useful on this site are the kanji lists he has posted. He has .gif and .doc files that you can print and make into kanji flashcards. Find kanji sets by character number and also by grade (1-6).
Source: “Hans Wadsten” | Subject: Kanji
At kanjistep.com you can find information about the Japanese language, culture and other Japan related topics. Our goal is to help students of Japanese to master the language and build a global community of people interested in Japan, its language and culture.
On this web site we offer free language teaching materials of all levels for self-study. Currently there are over 200 pages and over 600 … [ Read more ]
Source: “Japanese Language Resource Center” | Subject: Kanji
E-Kanji is a website designed to help students of Japanese improve their reading. It consists of reading passages, in which every Kanji is hyper-linked to a pronunciation key and a definition of the word to make reading easy. No more Kanji dictionaries. No more giving up on a reading because of one or two difficult kanji.
Note: in addition to the reading work, this site … [ Read more ]
Source: “E-Kanji” | Subjects: Kanji, Language Study
This is one part of the immensely useful Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Server. Here you can quickly look up kanji by radical(s). Sometimes this is a very useful method of finding kanji…
Source: “Jim Breen” | Subject: Kanji
This site features a new Kanji each weekday (and a randomly selected kanji from the prior week on weekends). Unfortunately, the site doesn’t offer an email newsletter so you have to actively remember to visit the site each day. Also, though there is a section for examples, the few times I have visited none were actually available.
Source: “Incors” | Subject: Kanji
Seventeen free online lessons to teach the beginnings of reading Japanese. Introduces hiragana and katakana in early lessons and kanji in later lessons, building your vocabulary and knowledge. Includes links to software and other sites for Japanese.
Source: “Sonia Murphy” | Subjects: Kanji, Language Study
This company sells a variety of Japanese language computing solutions for people in the U.S. While some, like their KanjiKit seem irrelevant with the latest versions of Windows and office, some, like their Meishi-Port (the first English and Japanese business card scanner with OCR) seem interesting. They also sell a couple of educational programs to learn Kanji.
Source: “Pacific Software Publishing Inc.” | Subjects: Kanji, Products
Claims to be the prime resource for Kanji learners but mostly exalts the (admittedly quite good) Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (KALD). I recommend you check out the Guide to the Japanese Writing System section.
Source: “Kanji Dictionary Publishing Society (KDPS)” | Subject: Kanji
The Kanji SITE was launched in September 1999 as a way for its author, Chris Jennings, to practice his kanji in preparation for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). It originally covered only the 80 kanji required for Level 4 of the JLPT, but has since grown to include a total of 1,000 kanji, namely the entire official syllabus for Levels 4, 3 and 2 … [ Read more ]
Source: “Chris Jennings” | Subject: Kanji