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Free printable kanji practice sheets
One A4 sheet per kanji — its stroke order, its readings and 80 squares to write it in — for all 1,907 kanji on this site. Open a sheet, then print it or save it as a PDF.
The N5 pack is free, one page per kanji, with no email to give.
Kanji practice sheets by JLPT level
New to kanji? Start with N5. Each level’s page shows every one of its kanji; click one and its sheet opens, ready to print.
Beginner
JLPT N5
82 kanji
日 本 一 二
Also printable by theme, a whole group at a time.
Elementary
JLPT N4
171 kanji
会 社 業 場
Intermediate
JLPT N3
385 kanji
政 議 民 官
Upper-intermediate
JLPT N2
261 kanji
党 協 総 府
Advanced
JLPT N1
1,008 kanji
醤 茹 侯 倹
Build your own set of practice sheets
Paste a word list or a lesson’s kanji, or add a whole level, and print them as one document: one kanji per page, or several to a page with 1 to 8 rows of squares each.
Make your own sheetsA weekly story you can actually read
A short comic every Saturday, written with beginner (N5) kanji and grammar only, plus a quiz on the words it teaches. Every kanji in it has a sheet here. It’s separate from the sheets, which never ask for an email.
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What’s on each kanji practice sheet
The kanji and its readings
Written large, with its meaning, on’yomi and kun’yomi, JLPT level and stroke count.
A numbered stroke-order diagram
Every stroke in the order you write it, from the KanjiVG project.
80 practice squares
Ten across and eight down, each with crosshair guides to help you keep the character balanced.
A tracing guide on every row
The first square of each row holds a faint copy of the diagram to trace before you write it freehand.
One sheet per page, laid out for A4 portrait, with the KanjiVG credit printed at the foot of every sheet.
How to print a sheet or save it as a PDF
- Choose your level above, then click any kanji on its page. The sheet opens in a new tab.
- Press Ctrl + P, or Command + P on a Mac.
- Print it, or choose Save as PDF as the destination to keep a copy.
On a phone, open the sheet and look for Print in your browser’s share menu.
Watch the stroke order before you write
Every kanji on these sheets also has a page that draws its strokes one at a time, with its meaning and readings. These are the first 12 of N5, in the order we teach them: