iKanji is an easy to use Mac application that will allow you to learn over 2,000 Japanese kanji characters.

If you are studying Japanese then you need iKanji - the most comprehensive kanji study tool available on the Mac, designed with all the care and attention you expect.

iKanji's flash cards let you quickly browse and search for kanji, see stroke animations as well as readings, meanings and example compounds.

You can build a practice set to manage your learning and add your own notes and comments to each kanji. iKanji also has three built-in quizzes so you can test your ability to recall stroke orders, meanings and readings for kanji.

Here are some key features of "iKanji":

· 2230 kanji are built-in, and you can easily add your own.
· Covers Japanese school grades 1 to 6, JLPT levels 1 to 4 and 214 kanji radicals.
· Contains nearly 20,000 example words in kanji and kana.
· Many kanji have stroke animations and you can easily record your own.
· Quickly sort kanji by stroke count or radical.
· Search by kanji, meaning, radical and example words.
· Get an 'at a glance' overview of your kanji proficiency by looking for kanji marked with bronze, silver and gold stars.
· See your test performance over time plotted as a graph in each of the testing areas.
· The kana input palette makes it easy for a novice to enter kana characters without needing to enable Japanese text input.
· Simply mark any kanji to quickly build a subset to practice yourself on.
· Freely add notes to each kanji to aide your own learning techniques.
· Kanji are rendered using the beautiful built-in Japanese fonts, not ugly bitmaps as used on many websites and in competing products.
· Designed to take advantage of features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard including Core Animation.

Requirements:

· 1024x768 minimum screen resolution.
· A basic understanding of hiragana and katakana is needed if you want to learn kanji readings.
· 20MB free hard drive space.
· Broadband internet access.

Limitations:

· Each test session is limited to 10 minutes.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Bug fixes: Fixes a problem with the Readings Test freezing the application.