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Hanzi, as a picture

Hanzi from the oracle bones up — ~2,900 characters with full etymology, radicals, and stroke order, indexable by meaning cluster, radical, JLPT level, Japanese school grade, or Chinese frequency. Free.

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410
2908 characters with narrative
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By meaning

Shapes of the heart
34 / 142
The flow of time
28 / 96
Going and coming
25 / 207
Family
18 / 85
Numbers
18 / 172
Home and road
17 / 143
All 24 clusters
02

By JLPT

N5
~100 kanji
N4
~300 kanji
N3
~650 kanji
N2
~1,000 kanji
N1
~2,000 kanji
03

By Japanese grade

小1 (G1)
小2 (G2)
小3 (G3)
小4 (G4)
小5 (G5)
小6 (G6)
中学 (JHS)
04

By frequency tier

Top 100
50% of text
Top 500
85% of text
Top 1,000
95% of text
All Jōyō
99% of text
05

By radical

水 water
161 chars
手 hand
146 chars
人 person
132 chars
木 tree
125 chars
口 mouth
122 chars
心 heart
103 chars
艸 grass
91 chars
言 speech
68 chars
土 earth
66 chars
糸 silk
64 chars
辵 walk
64 chars
女 woman
56 chars
日 sun
52 chars
肉 meat / flesh
48 chars
宀 roof
45 chars
火 fire
43 chars
刀 knife
37 chars
貝 shell
35 chars
阜 mound (left)
35 chars
金 metal
33 chars
竹 bamboo
32 chars
犬 dog
30 chars
玉 jade
29 chars
目 eye
29 chars

All Clusters · 24

Nature

In the sky
39 chars
What flows
84 chars
What burns
44 chars
On the earth
101 chars
What grows
123 chars
What breathes
77 chars

Body

The face
134 chars
Limbs
111 chars
Inside the body
68 chars

People

Family
85 chars
Roles people take
143 chars
Shapes of the heart
142 chars
Words and writing
164 chars

Living

Home and road
143 chars
What we eat
128 chars
What we wear
112 chars
Tools we use
224 chars

Motion

Going and coming
207 chars
Making and breaking
81 chars
The flow of time
96 chars

Abstract

Numbers
172 chars
Pointing words
151 chars
Size and degree
83 chars
Qualities
70 chars
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