About Kanji Sheets

Kanji Sheets (筆順, “stroke order”) makes clean, printable kanji practice sheets. It is built and run in Japan by a single developer. Worksheets are drawn directly from stroke data — no generative AI is involved.

Data sources

• Stroke order: KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel and contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. We render the strokes one by one, which is a modification.
• Readings, meanings, grades, frequency: KANJIDIC © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, via the kanji-data compilation by David Gouveia. School grades follow KANJIDIC and predate the 2020 curriculum revision.
• JLPT levels: Jonathan Waller's lists (tanos.co.uk, CC BY). The JLPT has not published official kanji lists since 2010.
• PDF font: Noto Sans JP (SIL Open Font License 1.1), subset to kana and Latin characters.

Worksheet licence

Every worksheet is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Share it, print it for your class, put it in your own materials — just keep this attribution:

Stroke order: KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (kanjivg.tagaini.net). Readings & meanings: KANJIDIC © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT levels: J. Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Modified (stroke-by-stroke rendering). This worksheet is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Found a mistake?

Stroke-order or reading errors are fixed in batches. Please email [email protected] with the kanji and what looks wrong.