An easy way to learn to recognize and associate meanings to japanese Kanji. We break down each kanji into components (which we call radicals), and build associations between them, allowing you to easily navigate between different kanji that share radicals, readings, or meanings. Using these association, and building on popular mnemonic based learning methods, We provide ways to interactively build and assess your knowledge of the kanji by associating them with personal mnemonics and keyphrases.
If you have any questions about what we do here, or want to report an issue with the site, shoot us an email at kanjibreakdown@gmail.com
JMdict/EDICT and KANJIDIC dictionary files, created by Jim Breen and the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), was used for sourcing vocabulary and kanji readings and meanings. JMdict/EDICT and KANJIDIC files are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).
KanjiVG, created by Ulrich Apel, was used and modified to show stroke animations and radical information for all kanji glyphs. KanjiVG is copyright Ulrich Apel and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Tatoeba was used for example sentence data, including translations and audio. All sentence data used was released under CC BY 2.0 FR and all audio data used was released under CC0 1.0.
Kanjium's data was used for pitch accent data. Kanjium's data is copyright Uros O. and released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Kanji alive was used to source audio files for vocabulary. Kanji alive's data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.