Relate Kanji is a study aid for Japanese Kanji.
It is a blazing fast search app that will help you master the Jōyō Kanji and its radicals.

To get started, just type anything on the search bar or look through the browse page.

What can I search for?

• Meanings:
  • tree
  • tree*
  • *tree*
• Readings (on-yomi or kun-yomi):
  • wa
  • kure
  • kure*
• Kanji / Radicals:
  • 水
  • 亻
• Words:
  • benkyou
  • ひさしぶり
• Searches can be crossed with "+":
  • sun + soil
  • person + soil + ka

For a more complete documentation, see the search explanation.

Frequently Asked Questions

See our FAQ.

Data sources

Base data was seeded from the KANJIDIC2 project (license), but was then heavily complemented with modifications on the meanings and sparse on-yomi and kun-yomi fixes.

The morphological graph (e.g. 時 = 日 ⿰ 寺) was handcrafted, with the two major sources of information being Wiktionary (license) and BabelStone (file). The main objective pursued was minimizing the number of foreign radicals while always using the largest segments available (e.g. 時 = 日 ⿰ 寺, instead of 日 ⿰ 土 ⿱ 寸).

Fonts are based on Google’s Noto (license) complemented with very rare characters from BabelStone Han (license), subset so that the total size is manageable.

Lastly, the ordering of the Kanji/Radicals is the result of this thesis.