Bird's Eye View Of Kanji

This is a pretty nifty view. Read The Kanji has a full kanji grid view that I occasionally take a look at that contains the full set of roughly 2,000 kanji, tailored to my progress. This is the basic goal by which most students of Japanese study. If you can learn this complete list, you're roughly equivalent to a high school graduate.



The tricky aspect of actually learning this entire grid of kanji is that I'm not simply learning what each individual kanji means (as is taught in countless books, particularly the controversial book Remembering the Kanji), but in my case, I'm actually learning the grid via compound kanji acquisition. This is why you see a number of highlighted kanji spread out over the entire sea of squiggles.

In case some of my readers are curious how I captured this screenshot since it spans multiple pages long, I found a nifty little free extension for Firefox called Screengrab! Works quite well :)