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24 alternatives to Kanji Pairs Explorer

Kanji Pairs Explorer — browse Japanese 2-kanji compound words with a slot-machine interface. Filter by romaji, kana, or kanji; navigate with arrow keys or touch.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Study Japanese Kanji words with this simply game

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    KanjiLens▲120

    Kanji Lens is a Japanese manga translator and learning tool.

    Jan 2026 · kanjilens.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…

    Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →

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    Read Japanese kana in two weeks

    Aug 2026 · kanasensei.dev · its alternatives →

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    Ziyo▲112

    A powerful Japanese Kanji dictionary & search engine

    2025 · ziyo.nourman.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn Kanji by breaking them down to first principles

    May 2026 · mojimori.app · its alternatives →

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    linkmoji▲456

    The emoji URL shortener (🍕💩.ws)

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Learn Japanese with every new tab

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Study Japanese hiragana and katakana with this simply game

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Japanese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with kanji lookup, example sentences, flashcards, OCR photo lookup, and a Safari extension for reading Japanese.

    2015 · nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →

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    Kansei▲168

    Practice languages with AI companions

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Kanso▲105

    A better way to learn Japanese 🇯🇵

    2017 · teamkanso-com.l.ink · its alternatives →

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    漢字倶楽部では漢字を構成する部品を入力して検索することができます。読みが分からない、一部の部首が読めない漢字でも検索できます。またアプリとしてインストールするとオフラインでも一部の機能が利用できます。

    2021 · kanji.club · its alternatives →

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    Read & listen to native Japanese and Chinese, tap any word

    Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Understand the elements that make up every kanji

    2024 · nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn Japanese hiragana and vocabulary with cute characters

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn your Duolingo vocabulary while browsing the web

    2023 · duoninja.com · its alternatives →

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    Actually, it is yet another tool to learn a language through immersion (classic set of features, watch on youtube/netflix, read a website or book). It has a popup dictionary so you can click on a word and it will show the definition. Nothing new in that regard, except that it has been made with only Korean in mind and does not plan to extends to other languages. I was learning and still am learning Korean (now using my own tool to learn!). I initially made the tool for myself because none of the tools out there could correctly figure out what a word was in the text. And that's where the…

    2023 · kimchi-reader.app · its alternatives →

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    Obsidian Vault, which links together Japanese Kanji by their constituents. - AlexW00/Kanji-Vault

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free furigana converter: Add hiragana, katakana, or romaji to Japanese text, PDFs, images & ebooks. No signup required. Try it instantly.

    May 2026 · ezfurigana.com · its alternatives →

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    I quit my job last year and worked mostly on this full SwiftUI rewrite of my Japanese reading app, Manabi Reader. The rewrite gave me the opportunity to expand to macOS (and without Catalyst so it feels extra native) and redo the data layer to be offline-first via Realm with iCloud sync. The biggest differentiators compared with other language study apps are that it tracks every word/kanji you read so that you can see how much of a given webpage/article you're already familiar with and other features/analytics built on that foundation; it automatically builds a personal corpus…

    2023 · reader.manabi.io · its alternatives →

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    QWANJI▲174

    Hey HN! I've built this bit of cuteware (software not solving a problem but just for fun) inspired from the patterns made by swipe typing on mobile devices. To me it seemed like the closest thing to an English version of Kanji and it would be cool to consistently recreate those patterns. The implementation is vanilla js to keep things simple (and from a bit of framework fatigue) I'm keen to see how people use qwanji. Any and all feedback welcome!

    2024 · byronicalpatrick.github.io · its alternatives →

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    reveal meanings, readings, and radicals with KanjiGlass.

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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