Your first 100 kanji

What's inside

• How kanji workWhy one kanji has several readings, what kun and on readings are, how to read a card, and how to get through the sheet without memorizing every reading.
• Kanji 1 to 25Numbers, days and nature, like 木, a tree with trunk, branches and roots.
• Kanji 26 to 50Nature, time and people, like 男, power in the rice field.
• Kanji 51 to 73People, position and size.
• Kanji 74 to 100Common verbs and everyday words, like 休, a person leaning on a tree to rest.
• PracticeCommon words and short sentences using only these 100 kanji. Cover the answers with a strip of paper and read aloud.

How to use it

1. Learn to read kana first. The kana chart is a good place to start.
2. Learn about five kanji a day: see the picture, say the meaning, read the example word.
3. Don't try to memorize every reading. Learn each one through its example word.
4. Cover the answers on the practice page and read aloud, then spot the kanji in real subtitles with Kitsumi.

More free Japanese printables

• Hiragana and katakana chartLearn to read first. Every hiragana and katakana, with a picture to remember it by.
• Japanese particles guideLearn the little words that hold a sentence together: は, が, を, に, で and more.
• Basic Japanese words listPick up the first 315 words: greetings, people, numbers, food, verbs and more.

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