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Audio

Pronunciation and listening audio generated with VOICEVOX. Voices used:

  • 四国めたん (Shikoku Metan)
  • 雀松朱司 (Janematsu Akeshi)
  • 玄野武宏 (Kurono Takehiro)

Kanji

Kanji meanings, readings, grades, stroke counts, and frequency data from KANJIDIC2 © the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT level assignments follow Jonathan Waller's JLPT Resources (the JLPT publishes no official kanji list). Compiled via kanji-data (MIT).

Stroke-order data from KanjiVG (© Ulrich Apel), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Handwriting recognition by KanjiCanvas (MIT). Stroke animation and the guided writing quiz use hanzi-writer (MIT), rendered from the KanjiVG data above.

Dictionary

Dictionary data from the JMdict and JMnedict projects, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Example sentences

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, licensed CC BY 2.0 FR.

Reading texts

Public-domain literary excerpts from Aozora Bunko, with author and source noted on each passage.

Our own content

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