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A public API over the EDRDG dictionaries, used once per character to enrich the JLPT table with compounds and keywords.

A few rows

Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.

  • 水

    N5 · water

    Among the first kanji an exam expects.

  • 鑑

    N1 · specimen, take warning from

    And among the last, at 23 strokes.

What we hold

Characters
2,211
Characters with example words
2,211
Last brought in
5 months agoApr 5, 2026

What we take

  • The words each kanji appears in, with readings and glosses
  • Heisig keywords and frequency ranks

Terms

The data behind it is EDRDG's, under the same share-alike terms as KANJIDIC2; the API itself is credited as the thing read.