Kanji Daily

One Japanese character a day: stroke order, readings, meaning and example words, as a short video.

Kanji Daily is a small automated project run by one person. Every day it builds a lesson for a single kanji — drawn stroke by stroke in the order it is actually written — and publishes it to the channels below. The characters run in the order they are taught in Japanese schools, so following along from the start is a curriculum rather than a shuffle.

Where it posts

Where the material comes from

Stroke order comes from KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel, used under CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and example vocabulary come from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, © the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under licence. The music, artwork and narration are original and made for this project. The same credits appear in the description of every video.

Contact

Questions, corrections and takedown requests: kanjidaily23@gmail.com. Corrections are welcome — the dictionary data occasionally picks the wrong reading, and knowing which one is wrong is the only way it gets fixed.