N5 Kanji Practice Sheet Generator
Click any of the 82 JLPT N5 kanji below for a printable sheet with its stroke order and a practice grid, or print a whole group of them at once.
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The same sheets you can generate here, collected into a single printable pack — every JLPT N5 character with its stroke order, readings and an 80-square practice grid. Free, and yours to print as often as you like.
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The same 82 kanji in the order we teach them, in 11 themed groups. Each button opens the whole group as one document, one kanji per page, so a theme prints — or saves as a single PDF — in one go.
Group 1 · 2 kanji
Start here
The two kanji that write 日本, Japan.
日 本
Group 2 · 10 kanji
Numbers
One to ten, the base of every larger number.
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十
Group 3 · 4 kanji
Big numbers and money
Hundred, thousand and ten thousand, and 円, the yen.
百 千 万 円
Group 4 · 5 kanji
Time
Hour, year, month, noon and half.
時 年 月 午 半
Group 5 · 7 kanji
People
Person, woman, man, child, mother, father and friend.
人 女 男 子 母 父 友
Group 6 · 6 kanji
Describing things
Big, small, tall, long, white and hot.
大 小 高 長 白 暑
Group 7 · 8 kanji
Nature
Sky, fire, water, tree, earth, mountain, river and rain.
天 火 水 木 土 山 川 雨
Group 8 · 4 kanji
Directions
East, west, south and north.
東 西 南 北
Group 9 · 13 kanji
Verbs
Go, come, see, go out, enter, read, write, talk, hear, eat, live and rest, plus 気, spirit.
行 来 見 出 入 読 書 話 聞 食 生 気 休
Group 10 · 10 kanji
Places and positions
Country and school, and where things are: in, above, below, in front, behind, between and outside.
国 学 校 中 上 下 前 後 間 外
Group 11 · 13 kanji
Everyday words
Name, minute, now, money, electricity, language, car, what, every, right, left, ahead and sword.
名 分 今 金 電 語 車 何 毎 右 左 先 刀
A weekly story you can actually read
A short comic every Saturday, with a quiz on the words it teaches. It’s written with N5 kanji and beginner grammar only, so every kanji in it is one you can print on this page.
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How to print a sheet or save it as a PDF
- Click a kanji in the grid above, or a group’s print button. 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.
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.
Written a few out? Quiz yourself on all 82 N5 kanji: pick the meaning, the reading or the kanji.