漢ジェ

書いて、覚える。

Write kanji by hand, word by word, on the iPad.

Pick a kanji and you get a page of the words it appears in. Write each one in squares, write a sentence that uses it, and review it when it’s due.

2,136 kanji17,800 wordsApple Pencil or fingerFree

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The page for the kanji 毎: its readings and meaning, then its words — 毎日, 毎年, 毎週 and more — each with a reading and meaning.

How a session goes

The app follows a paper routine: a drill book of words for each kanji, a notebook of squares, and flashcards for what you’ve written.

  1. The page for 毎, listing its words.

    Pick a kanji

    Each of the 2,136 jōyō kanji has a page of the words it appears in, with their readings and meanings. The app suggests where to start, or you can search.

  2. The writing sheet for 毎月: columns of squares, the first showing the word faintly.

    Write each word

    The first column shows the word faintly to copy; the squares after it are yours. Readings can be hidden once you know them, and the squares come in three sizes.

  3. The sentence page: an example sentence to copy, and ruled lines for your Japanese and your English.

    Write a sentence

    Copy an example sentence that uses the word, write what it means in English, then compare yours with a reference translation.

  4. A review card showing the word 毎日.

    Review

    Words you’ve written come back on a schedule. You see the word, recall what it means, and mark how well you knew it.

Where the words come from

The words, readings, meanings and example sentences come from freely licensed dictionary data, and the app’s derived content is shared under the same terms. About two in three words come with an example sentence.

JMdict CC BY-SA 4.0
Japanese–English dictionary data. © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, Monash University.
KANJIDIC2 CC BY-SA 4.0
Kanji data, including stroke counts and level information. © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group.
Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR
Example sentences, distributed with JMdict by the jmdict-simplified project.
Tanaka Corpus CC BY
The word index behind each example sentence — its segmentation and readings, made by hand. © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group.
KanjiVG CC BY-SA 3.0
Stroke order paths. © Ulrich Apel. The paths in the app are derived from KanjiVG and carry the same licence.
JmdictFurigana CC BY-SA 4.0
Which kanji of a word each part of its reading belongs to.
JLPT levels MIT
A reconstruction: the test has published no kanji or vocabulary list since 2010. The levels trace to Jonathan Waller’s lists, and the app labels them as reconstructed.

Privacy

No account, no analytics, no ads. Your progress syncs between your iPads through your own iCloud, which only you can read; your handwriting stays on the iPad it was written on. The full privacy policy.