Welcome to The Kanji Map

This site was created to give a visual map of the connections between kanjis and to help Japanese learners study more efficiently. The kanji decomposition is represented by a graph with detailed kanji and radical information.

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Desktop version

You can download the desktop version of The Kanji Map for MacOS, Windows and Linux here

How to use this site

Graph

Kanjis are represented with nodes and the connection between kanji elements with edges. Click on visible nodes or use the search field to change the selected node. Hover your mouse over the selected node (or click the lightbulb icon in mobile view) to highlight parent nodes with the same onyomi.

: Fit graph to window

Node styles

mainnode : Currently selected kanji

joyonode : Jōyō kanji

rarenode : Not jōyō (jinmeiyō or hyōgai) kanji

uniquenode : Unique glyph

onyominode : Kanjis with same onyomi

Info sidebar

Search field : Type a single kanji character to select it

Character & Stroke Order : The kanji character and stroke order animation

Meaning : Meaning of the kanji

Reading

Kunyomi : Japanese reading of the kanji

: Japanese reading of the kanji Onnyomi : Chinese (Sino-Japanese) reading of the kanji

: Chinese (Sino-Japanese) reading of the kanji Nanori : Reading used in Japanese names

Kanji information

Stroke Count : The total stroke-count of the kanji

: The total stroke-count of the kanji Grade : Grade of the kanji

: Grade of the kanji 教育漢字 (kyōiku kanji) : Kanji taught in elementary school

: Kanji taught in elementary school

常用漢字 (jōyō kanji) : Kanji taught in junior high school

: Kanji taught in junior high school

人名用漢字 (jinmeiyō kanji) : Kanji used in Japanese names

: Kanji used in Japanese names

表外漢字 (hyōgai kanji) : Additional kanji

: Additional kanji Occurrence : Frequency-of-use ranking of the top 2500 kanjis found in newspapers

Radical information

Radical : Radical and variations

: Radical and variations Stroke Count : The total stroke-count of the radical

: The total stroke-count of the radical Meaning : Meaning of the radical

: Meaning of the radical Reading : Janapese reading of the radical

Related words : The most common words containing the kanji with reading and meaning

Mobile view

: Show kanji info

: Highlight same-onyomi nodes

Credits

Cytoscape.js

The Kanji Map was created by using cytoscape.js

cytoscape/cytoscape.js is licensed under the MIT license

KanjiVG

Stroke order animations were created by KanjiVG

KanjiVG is copyright © 2009-2018 Ulrich Apel and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license

JMdict and KANJIDIC2

The Kanji Map uses the JMdict and KANJIDIC dictionary files, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group

This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group. See edrdg.org

CHISE-IDS database

The Kanji Map uses the Ideographic Description Sequence found in the CHISE project

The CHISE-IDS database is published under the GNU General Public License

Dynatable

The Kanji Map uses Dynatable, that is open-source licensed under the Free Software Foundation's GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL)

License

©Copyright The Kanji Map 2017-2020 by Gabor Kovacs - released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Version

v1.1 - Added undo button and layout animations

v1.2 - Added external links to Kanshūdō, deep linking and replaced missing unicode characters with images

v1.3 - Added kanji list and improved search functionality

v2.0 - Redesigned user interface