One-character lookup

Chinese character Japanese reading lookup

Enter one Simplified or Traditional Chinese character to inspect its Japanese form, on-readings and Kana.

One Simplified or Traditional character at a timeConversion takes place locally in your browser.

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Why one character can have several readings

Kanji entered Japanese at different times and from different sources, so a single character may retain several on-readings. The recorded candidates are shown together, with the first used as the default in combined name results.

Character form and reading

A Simplified character may first map to a Japanese form, such as 张 to 張. This character mapping is shown separately from the pronunciation.