KANJIDIC2

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The Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group's kanji dictionary: every character with every meaning and reading, built into the site as a file.

A few rows

Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.

  • 鬱

    29 strokes · jōyō, and unranked in print

    The most complex character in common use, and too rare to make the frequency table at all.

  • 一

    1 stroke · frequency rank 2

    The simplest character there is, and the second commonest in print.

  • 畑

    Grade 3 · field

    Made in Japan, so it has no Chinese reading at all.

What we hold

Characters
10,384
Last brought in
3 days agoSep 1, 2026
Their release
2026-244

What we take

  • Meanings, on and kun readings, and the readings only names use
  • Stroke counts, school grades and newspaper frequency ranks
  • The pre-2010 JLPT level, for characters the current tables skip

Terms

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The credit is a condition of use, and so is sharing any derived data under the same terms. CC BY-SA 4.0