Kanji Stories

What makes Kanji Stories different? You learn the simple parts first, so every new kanji is built from pieces you already know.

Kanji Stories teaches all 2,000+ of Japan's common-use kanji in component order. Each character is paired with a memorable story so the meaning sticks the first time you see it, and a constellation map shows how every kanji connects to its parts.

🌟 Key Features

🧠 2000+ Curated Kanji Stories
Every kanji comes with a mnemonic story to help you recall its meaning effortlessly.

📈 No Review Pile. No Guilt
Miss a day? A week? Kanji Stories picks up where you left off. No punishing backlog, no shame spiral. An adaptive probabilistic algorithm reschedules practice around your real life, not the other way around.

✍️ Write, Don’t Just Read
Reinforce memory with guided writing exercises that teach you the correct stroke order for each kanji.

📖 Complete Kanji Data
Explore JLPT levels, readings (on-yomi and kun-yomi) and meanings all in one place.

📊 Personal & Global Stats
Track your learning through detailed statistics: time studied, reviews completed, XP gained, and your study streak.
Subscribers unlock aggregate insights, helping you visualize your total growth across all sessions.

🔥 Stay Motivated Daily
Maintain momentum with a study streak system and heatmap tracker that reward consistency and show your progress lighting up day by day.

🌌 The Kanji Constellation
See all kanji connected in a celestial network of meaning and form.
Watch your personal constellation brighten as you study and explore the relationships between characters like never before.

🔍 Intuitive Kanji Search
Search any kanji and instantly see how it connects to its components, related characters, and stories.

🎓 Free to Start, Limitless to Explore
Study all JLPT N5 kanji and their supporting kanji and radicals completely free. Upgrade to unlock higher levels, advanced stats, and all ~2000 kanji.