The Kanji Map is a Japanese language learning tool that shows kanji information and decomposition in graph form.
Try it online at thekanjimap.com
or thekanjimap.netlify.app (backup)
- 2025-10-15 – Version 6.0.0
- Added Go script updates to keep Kangxi/CJK compatibility radicals consistent (thanks to mochi-co/equivalent-unified-ideograph), avoiding issues like 忄 vs. ⺖ being mixed.
- Reworked the data composition pipeline; radical alternative forms now link back to the original form.
- Updated the kanji dataset.
- Fixed a bug where kanji without stroke animations were not displayed.
- Fixed radicals and added alternative forms with position metadata.
- Added a custom font to display radicals (thanks to KanjiVG).
Displayed kanji information (where available):
- Type: jōyō kanji (taught in school), jinmeiyō kanji (used in names) or neither
- JLPT (Japanese-Language Proficiency) Test level
- Frequency rank out of 2500 most used kanji found in newspapers
- Stroke count
- Meaning
- Kunyomi (Japanese reading of the kanji)
- Onnyomi (Chinese/Sino-Japanese reading of the kanji)
- Examples with audio, kunyomi and onyomi
- Radical with kunyomi and meaning
- Kanji and decomposition is based on KanjiVG, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence.
- List of radicals are provided by github.com/sylhare/kanji, licensed under MIT.
- Stroke animations are provided by animCJK, released under the Arphic Public License.
- Kanji, examples and radical information is provided by JISHO.org, sourcing from multiple open source dictionaries and Kanji alive, released under CC 4.0.
- Graph is created using react-force-graph and three-spritetext, released under the MIT license.
- Handwritten kanji recognition uses handwriting.js, released under the MIT license.
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