Learn 1000 kanji using the StudyJapanese Jouyou kanji practise sheets.
Jouyou kanji (常用漢字) is the set of 1945 kanji that the Japanese Ministry of Education has decided that school children must learn. We have compiled a list of the about thousand kanji that Japanese children learn from first to sixth grade. These first 1006 kanji are also called the Kyouiku kanji.
The following practise sheets are made to have the left part folded to cover the actual kanji, so you will have to remember the kanji, and not just copy it mechanically. If you are unsure of the stroke order, please use the kanji dictionary found on the right hand side of this site. Most kanji have stroke order diagrams attached.
- Jouyou Kanji Grade 1 (pdf, 0.9 MB)
- Jouyou Kanji Grade 2 (pdf, 1.7 MB)
- Jouyou Kanji Grade 3 (pdf, 2.1 MB)
- Jouyou Kanji Grade 4 (pdf, 2.1 MB)
- Jouyou Kanji Grade 5 (pdf, 1.9 MB)
- Jouyou Kanji Grade 6 (pdf, 1.9 MB)
Please let us know what you think of these practise sheets.
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5:50 pm on October 11th, 2010
More often than not, when a word consists of only one kanji and some hiragana, the kanji is read with a kunyomi. When a word consists only of several kanji, it is usually read using onyomi for each kanji. However, there is no fixed rule. For more information about kunyomi and onyomi, it would be better to ask a question in the forum than here.
4:14 pm on October 11th, 2010
Ok. So which one is used when using kanji with kanji and which one is used when using kanji with hiragana?
6:05 am on August 5th, 2010
These is what I’m searching for.
ありがとうございました。
11:58 am on June 25th, 2010
There are many web sites which give animations of how to draw kanji. You can easily find one with a Google search.
If you use Windows, there is a free program called zkanji which includes stroke order animations, as well as a lot of other tools for learning. Please see the article about this program at http://www.studyjapanese.org/content/view/240/111/
8:57 am on June 25th, 2010
Where to search the stroke order for these characters.
2:32 pm on June 10th, 2010
ありがと
2:34 am on March 24th, 2010
i new to this site and was browsing the kanji sheets. on Jouyou grade 3 Kanji sheet 3 i dont see a kanji up for Apartment in the 7th chart of Jouyou Kanji practice sheet. Besides that thank for this really helps alot.
11:59 am on February 23rd, 2010
Thank you for putting this out, but isn’t there possible to put out the remaining characters too?
2:21 pm on December 15th, 2009
ありがとうございます。
やくだつです〜！
5:52 pm on November 9th, 2009
I love these sheets, they have helped me a lot, ありがとうございました, I wonder, can you put up more kanji practice sheets?
I will love you forever, seriously
10:20 pm on October 12th, 2009
練習の方が良いだね。
6:28 am on October 12th, 2009
kono sheets wa subarashii desu ne.. ^^ atashi wa kanji ga yomimasen.. haha! please correct me if my nihongo is wrong.. ^^ these sheets will really help me.. ^^
来菜
5:43 pm on October 1st, 2009
It’s great to get something so helpful, and so free!
1:10 pm on September 20th, 2009
The study material is helpful in learning Kanji.
私は 漢字を 勉強する ことが 大好きです.
I write a sentence. Is it correct in grammar?
どうも ありがとうございます.
8:04 pm on September 5th, 2009
THese have been very helpful and I know the stroke order but remembering the on and the kun reading is has been hard but thanks anyway.
6:54 am on September 3rd, 2009
These sheets are perfect to study with. Thank you very much.
7:09 pm on August 15th, 2009
Actually, ee has several pronunciations, too, come to think of it: bee, been, nee (referring to the unmarried name of a woman).
7:07 pm on August 15th, 2009
lilstar-san, that’s what really makes reading Japanese difficult to learn– not so much that there are a lot of kanji to learn, although that also requires considerable effort, but the fact that one kanji can be pronounced in several different ways depending on what word it is in.
For most kanji, the situation is not so difficult; there are one or two kunyomi, each of which occurs in only one word (perhaps with a couple of variants), and one onyomi. However, as you point out, the most common kanji can have many more yomi, and kanji with several onyomi can be particularly hard. One often cannot predict which one will be used in a given word, unless one already knows the sound of the word.
This is where the task for those of us learning nihongo as adults is harder than for Japanese children, who already know most of the vocabulary, and only need to learn which kanji are used to spell a word that they already know. For us, we are often learning the vocabulary word at the same time that we learn its spelling.
In principle, though, this is not really more difficult than learning which of the many vowel sounds is represented by a particular combination of vowels in the spelling of an English word; one learns first what the word should sound like, and then one learns which of the many vowel combinations is used to represent each vowel sound in that word. Think of the many ways a long e in English can be written: e, ee, ie, ei, ea, for example– and pretty much all of these except ee can be pronounced differently in different words. This is a horrible difficulty for people learning English as a second language, but those of us for whom English is a first language do not think about it much.
Sorry for the long-winded response, but I hope that helps to put the difficulty into perspective a little. It is probably more efficient to learn yomi of a kanji as they come up in particular vocabulary words than to learn them on their own; but different things work for different people.
4:33 pm on August 15th, 2009
hi there! can anyone tell me, why does the kanji word has SO many sounds?? which one am i suppose to read? example pdf.1 the number 10 has like so many katakanas and 2 hiraganas!
3:25 am on August 3rd, 2009
4:26 am on July 24th, 2009
ありがトございます。 すばらしい がんがいる。
7:52 am on July 20th, 2009
どうもありがとう ＾＿＾
This is a great help!
Jaa
チョコ
6:53 pm on July 7th, 2009
This is great for me! I have been behind in my kanji, and now i can catch up.
6:09 pm on July 3rd, 2009
yep. hajimemashite cher-san. i used to have these exercise books in which one would pratice the order of the strokes. it was very boring~
11:29 am on July 2nd, 2009
Actually, for Chinese, you write the horizontal strokes before the vertical ones. (:
11:39 pm on June 25th, 2009
Most Kanji follow the chinese kanji stroke order write the vertical lines first then the horizontal.
10:06 am on June 24th, 2009
ありがとうございます!
This is really smth I’ve been looking for years and when I failed to find I started to make one my own but..now I can switch to the work of StudyJapanese team. Once again, お疲れ様でしたぁ
10:41 pm on June 22nd, 2009
Yes, the top line consists of onyomi, and the bottom line of kunyomi. (It is an old convention that onyomi are written in katakana, suggesting foreign words, in this case Chinese, and kunyomi in hiragana.)
In the line of kunyomi, a period (.) represents the end of the kunyomi of the kanji and the part of the word in question which is written in hiragana (these are called okurigana). So for example, in the kunyomi line for the kanji 一, ひと.つ means that the word in question is normally written 一つ, with the kanji read as “ひと” in that word.
3:48 pm on June 22nd, 2009
Oh thank you so much! I had looking for another way to study Kanji and this is perfect. Thank you so much. Only thing I’m iffy on, is the ON-reading the top one and then KUN-reading below in blue?
10:12 pm on June 21st, 2009
Wow these are great! Now to search the stroke order for these characters.
6:38 am on June 21st, 2009
thanks!!
9:34 pm on June 20th, 2009
I think that’s superb idea. Especially like splitting to grades, which lets to learn kanji in stages and increasing difficulty. /printing