Declan's ReadWrite Kanji

Learn to read and write over 1900 Kanji characters.

Kanji means Chinese letter or character. The script was invented by the Chinese and adopted by the Japanese around the middle of the 6th century AD. Kanji are ideographs meaning that the whole character conveys a meaning rather than just a sound (as in the case of hiragana and katakana letters). Kanji were originally drawn as pictures from nature but gradually transformed to more generalized representations. By the end of year nine Japanese students will have learned 1945 kanji as prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education (the Jouyou Kanji). There are many many more less commonly used kanji totaling over 5000. ReadWrite Kanji teaches the 1945 prescribed kanji in the order in which that are taught to Japanese students.

Features and Benefits:

• The official first 1900+ joyo kanji taught to Japanese children.
• Writing stroke order animations for all kanji.
• Over 3000 examples of the use of the kanji included.
• Learning-list testing.
• Flashcard review and exercises to aid memorization.