KanjiHybrid
Write in plain English
Ask about your day, a trip, anything. Replies come back with characters standing in for words you know, at the same size and colour as the rest of the sentence.
Learn kanji by reading English.
KanjiHybrid replaces the first letter of a word with the character that means it. You keep reading at full speed, and the kanji does the teaching.
Free to download. iOS and Android.
Live example
Tap any character for its reading.
You already know the word.
Nothing has to be decoded. The meaning arrives from the English you are already reading, so the character attaches to a word you understand instead of to a flashcard.
Tap what you do not recognise
A character opens its reading, romaji, meaning and JLPT level, then closes again. The sentence stays exactly where it was.
Nothing to maintain
No decks, no review queue, no streak to protect. Your vocabulary is a record of what you have read, not a list of what you intended to study.
Your vocabulary is the reading you have already done.
Every character you meet is logged with how often you have seen it and when you saw it last. The dictionary underneath is Vee David's, built for this method.
- 2,594
- Characters with full readings, meanings and JLPT levels.
- 95,263
- Compound phrases, so "sea turtle" converts as 海亀 rather than two loose words.
- N5-N1
- Levels covered, tagged on every character you meet.
Start with one sentence.
KanjiHybrid is in testing on iOS and Android. Leave your email and we will send you the build as soon as the next round opens.
Free to download. One email when your place opens, nothing else.
A few of the 2,594
- 海 うみ sea N4
- 学 まな study N5
- 雨 あめ rain N5
- 旅 たび trip N4
- 議 ギ debate N3
- 鑑 かんが reference N1