AnimatedKanjiViewer

Japanese Kanji Dictionary with animated gif Kanji Stroke images

The AnimatedKanjiViewer is a kanji dictionary. It allows look-up of information on about 13,000 different Kanji. The information currently supplied is meaning in English, stroke count, Japanese pronunciation (訓読み), Chinese pronunciation (音読み) and pronunciation as used in names (名乗り). I have also included a Heisig key word.

To use the viewer, enter characters you are interested in into the search window at the top of the application. The characters can be Kanji, Kana or western characters. The kanji will be filtered and their information displayed in the table below the search window. This allows you to copy/past a complete phrase into the window and see information on only the Kanji in the phrase. For instance you could enter "私の質問は・・・" and you would see information on the kanji 私, 質 and 問 with the other characters ignored.

This application differs from other dictionaries I'm familiar with in only one place: it also includes graphic images for almost 2,000 kanji. The images include examples of the printed kanji, the kanji as it might appear if written with a pencil and most especially, an animated image that shows how to write the image.