Jouyou Kanji Practise Sheets
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.
やくだつです〜!
I will love you forever, seriously :D
来菜
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.
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.
This is a great help!
Jaa
チョコ
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 ;)
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.