How many kanji per day: the 5, 10, 15, 20 rates, the review-load curve that peaks at weeks 4 to 6, the three-block schedule, and the burnout signature.
Ateji (当て字) assigns kanji to a word for its sound, not its meaning. Why 寿司 and 珈琲 use those kanji, the Meiji story, and the jukujikun boundary.
Go-on, kan-on, and tō-on are the three historical layers behind a kanji's multiple on'yomi: where each came from and how to tell them apart.
Grade 1 jōyō kanji: all 80 first-grade characters in one table with on'yomi, kun'yomi, stroke counts, top vocabulary uses, and JLPT N5 mapping.
Grade 2 jōyō kanji: all 160 second-grade characters in one table with on'yomi, kun'yomi, stroke counts, top vocabulary uses, and JLPT N5 and N4 mapping.
Grade 3 jōyō kanji: all 200 third-grade characters in one table with on'yomi, kun'yomi, stroke counts, top vocabulary uses, and JLPT N4 and N3 mapping.
Grade 4 jōyō kanji: all 202 fourth-grade characters with readings, stroke counts, the 2017 prefecture-name expansion, and the JLPT N3 mapping.
Grade 5 jōyō kanji: all 193 fifth-grade characters with readings, stroke counts, the civics and economy clusters, and the JLPT N3 to N2 mapping.
Grade 6 jōyō kanji: all 191 sixth-grade characters with readings, stroke counts, the constitutional and law clusters, and JLPT N2 mapping.
How many kanji do you need: the cumulative-coverage curve, per use case (newspapers, novels, manga, work) and per JLPT level, with the recognition target.
How to count kanji strokes, sorted: the 永字八法 eight basic strokes, the corner, hook, and enclosure rules, why 口 is 3 strokes, and dictionary lookup.
How to learn kanji, decided by camp: kanji-meaning-first (Heisig), radical to kanji to vocab SRS (WaniKani), or kanji-via-context, with a selection rubric.
How to look up a kanji you don't know, routed by source: Yomitan hover for digital text, Google Lens or Live Text for print, radical and SKIP for paper.
How to predict the reading of a kanji compound: the on+on default, jūbako and yutō mixed patterns, the 形声 phonetic shortcut, rendaku, and when to look up.
How to read long kanji compounds: chunk 3, 4, 5, and 6-kanji strings, apply the on'yomi continuation rule, with 国際関係論, 株式会社, and 内閣総理大臣 worked through.
Hyōgaiji (表外字): the kanji outside jōyō and jinmeiyō. The 1,022-char 表外漢字字体表, the 50,000 大漢和辞典 entries, surnames, N1 reading dips, and IME tips.
I forgot all my kanji, now what? Why isolated-deck kanji decay, how to run a relearning sprint, and why vocabulary exposure beats reviving an old deck.
Jinmeiyō kanji: the 863 characters Japanese law permits in personal names beyond jōyō, the Family Register Act framing, and the court cases that grew the list.
A JLPT N2 kanji and vocabulary strategy: the ~1,000 kanji and ~6,000 words, the new layer beyond N3, the decks worth using, and a parallel-track schedule.
A JLPT N4 kanji and vocabulary strategy: the ~300 kanji and ~1,500 words (700 new beyond N5), the decks to use, and a parallel-track study schedule.
JLPT N5 kanji grouped by theme: the ~100 characters across numbers, time, verbs, adjectives, and nouns, how they map to jōyō grade 1, plus an 8-week plan.
Jūbako and yutō readings, sorted: the four on/kun patterns in two-kanji compounds, why 本屋 is hon-ya, why 場所 is ba-sho, and a prediction heuristic.
Jukugo are kanji-only compound words and half of written Japanese. Learn the definition, the on'yomi-default rule, and the four construction patterns.
Jukujikun assigns one reading to a whole kanji compound, not its characters. Learn the definition, examples like 大人 and 今日, and the ateji boundary.
How to make mnemonics for kanji that stick: the four principles, four story templates, the reading layer, and when curated banks beat self-authored stories.
Kanji radicals explained: the strict 部首 definition, one indexing head per kanji, the 214 Kangxi inventory from 1716, and why WaniKani uses the word differently.
Kanji stroke order from the 1958 MEXT guide: two great principles, eight detailed rules, the 十-vs-田 cross-stroke decision, and the typing-era payoff.
What is kanji.koohii: the community story bank for Heisig RTK, how its keyword-to-character SRS works, the best-rated story filter, and Anki hand-off.
Learning kanji through vocabulary explained: the AJATT and Refold case for kanji-in-context, the vocab-deck workflow, and trade-offs vs. Heisig and WaniKani.
Nanori are the name-only kanji readings that ignore the on'yomi and kun'yomi rules. Learn what they are, the patterns behind them, and why names need furigana.
On'yomi vs. kun'yomi explained for beginners: why a kanji has two readings, how the katakana and hiragana dictionary convention works, and when to use each.
Phonetic components in kanji, sorted: how 青 signals セイ across 清, 晴, 精, 請; the 反 and 工 series; and the ~60% reliability of the prediction.
Kanji radical positions, sorted: hen, tsukuri, kanmuri, ashi, tare, nyō, kamae, plus why 水 becomes 氵 and 心 becomes 忄 when they move position.
Radicals vs components in kanji: the dictionary's one indexing head per kanji, the learner's every-meaningful-piece, and where Heisig and WaniKani diverge.
Reading 生 means handling two on'yomi, six kun'yomi stems, ~30 nanori, and jukujikun like 芝生. A worked walk through every reading the kanji can take.
Rendaku in kanji compounds, sorted for N3+ readers: why 紙 voices to -gami in 折り紙, why 学校 and 図書館 do not, and how Lyman's Law fires inside compound kanji.
Secondary school jōyō kanji: the 1,110-character remainder beyond the kyōiku set, split by JLPT N2 and N1, with readings, stroke counts, and the MEXT arc.
Semantic components in kanji, sorted: how 氵 signals water in 100+ kanji, the top 30 meaning families, and where the hint stops being reliable.
What order should I learn kanji in? School grade, corpus frequency, and Heisig-style component order compared, with a decision rule and tool list.
Four jukugo construction patterns, sorted: 修飾 modifier+head, 並列 coordination, 主述 subject+predicate, 述目 verb+object, with a diagnostic flow.
The Heisig method for kanji explained: how Remembering the Kanji uses primitives, keywords, and stories, the 3-month timeline, and who it actually fits.
History of kanji: the oracle-bone to regular-script arc, the 5th-century transmission to Japan, the 呉音 漢音 唐音 strata, and the 1946 to 2010 reforms.
The jōyō kanji list, sorted: the 2,136 characters set by the 2010 Cabinet Notice, the 1946 to today policy arc, and the jinmeiyō and hyōgaiji boundary.
The six categories of kanji (六書): pictographs, indicatives, compound ideographs, phono-semantic compounds, plus the two usage principles, with payoff.
Top 50 kanji radicals by frequency, ranked across the 2,136 jōyō set: each one with meaning, alternate position forms, and 3 to 5 example kanji.
Wago, kango, gairaigo, konshugo sorted: the four Japanese vocabulary strata, the register split, the on'yomi default, and the konshugo mixing rules.
Is WaniKani worth it? How the radical, kanji, and vocabulary SRS pipeline drives the 60-level path, the ~20-item daily load, and who the method fits.
What is kanji? A beginner's guide to how kanji works: meaning plus sound in one character, the kanji and vocabulary triangle, and where okurigana fits in.
Writing kanji by hand, decided by use case: the recognition vs production split, when IME conversion is enough, and when paper forms or exams force the pen.
Yojijukugo explained: what four-kanji Japanese idioms are, the classical-Chinese, Buddhist, and 和製 origin split, register, plus a top-50 N2 and N1 list.