Japanese kanji radicals

Explore how kanji radicals build characters, with examples like the sleeping line, standing line, water droplet, hook, and fishing rod. Learn two study methods—writing practice and mnemonic stories.

Explore kanji radicals and their stories in lesson 2, with examples like a relaxing man with arms behind his head, a long-nosed man, a horse, and an open box.

Explore lesson 3 by examining multi-stop Japanese kanji radicals and their stories, including radicals resembling a butcher's knife, power and security radicals, and other named radicals.

Explore multi-stop kanji radicals and their stories, including the man radical, wave, balance, book, child, droplets, rainbow, and river.

Lesson 5 of Japanese kanji radicals explores multi-stop radicals and stories, including the female radical, the skull of an alligator, and examples like sign, cross, stick, key, and three horns.

Explore Japanese kanji radicals through engaging stories of multi-stop radicals, including the dog radical and the mind radical, with visual cues like numbers, car top views, and boxlike forms.

Lesson 7 introduces multi-stop kanji radicals, including sun with rays, the moon reflecting light, a double radical, an e-like form, handwriting, heart, and man, crow, fire and mind motifs.

Explore multi-stop radicals in lesson 8 of Japanese kanji radicals, including the goat radical, mother radical, mouth with pipe, rice field, sheep, spikes, and the stop radical.

Explore multi-stop kanji radicals and their stories, including the next radical, a water symbol, a cliff, and a mouth, with notes on a South India harvest festival.