Kanji Scanner: Learn Japanese

Learn kanji in your language. Turn the Japanese text around you into a learning opportunity. Kanji Scanner helps you look up characters from photos, explore their meanings and readings, watch stroke order, and review the kanji you save. Choose from 12 learning languages and use the core scanning and dictionary features offline. SCAN JAPANESE TEXT Take a photo or choose an image from your gallery. Review the recognized Japanese text and select a kanji to explore. Crop your photo to focus on the text you want to learn. DRAW A KANJI Not sure how to type a character? Sketch it on screen and choose from handwriting suggestions. UNDERSTAND READINGS AND MEANINGS Explore on’yomi and kun’yomi readings, translated meanings, and example words with furigana. Search by Japanese characters, readings, English, or your selected learning language. WATCH STROKE ORDER See how kanji, hiragana and katakana are written using animated stroke order. Play through a whole word, one character at a time. Short words show characters side by side. Longer words switch to a large character view with a scrolling word strip, keeping each stroke easy to follow. Pause, replay, slow down, or tap a character to study it. LEARN IN 12 LANGUAGES Choose your app and learning languages independently: • English • Simplified Chinese • Traditional Chinese • Vietnamese • Korean • Filipino • Nepali • Indonesian • Brazilian Portuguese • Burmese • Sinhala • Hindi LISTEN TO JAPANESE Hear readings and example words using your phone’s Japanese text-to-speech voice. Listen at normal or slower speed to support your practice. SAVE AND REVIEW Build your own collection of kanji and revisit them with flashcards. Keep a local scan history so you can return to text you have studied. MADE FOR EVERYDAY USE • Offline photo text recognition and dictionary lookup • Bundled stroke animations • Light and dark themes • Home-screen camera shortcut • No account required Use Kanji Scanner while studying Japanese, reading printed material, or exploring everyday text. GOOD TO KNOW Recognition results may need correction. Some translations are AI-generated and may contain errors. Meanings, examples and stroke animations are not available for every character. Offline pronunciation requires a compatible Japanese voice installed on your phone. Voice data may need a one-time download. Ads and optional online translation require an internet connection. Photos, drawings and dictionary lookups are processed on your device.