Hitoji
A free, calm reference for hiragana, katakana and Hitokuji’s first 10 kanji. Look up a character, see how it’s read, watch how it’s written, then get on with your day.
Look it up
Search by rōmaji, English meaning or a reading in kana. Every kana and Hitokuji’s first 10 kanji.
Watch it written
Each character draws itself stroke by stroke. Tap to replay. Look-alikes sit side by side.
Three kana a day
A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget that walks the chart, three kana each morning.
When you want more than a reference
ひとくじHitokuji is a 365-day study app from the same makers. Each day opens one slip with one kanji, the words built from it and a proverb to keep. Missed days wait for you.
About HitokujiPrivacy
プライバシーHitoji doesn’t collect personal data. There’s no account, no advertising and no analytics SDK. Your settings, such as appearance and widget choice, stay on your device.
Links from Hitoji to Hitokuji include a short tag saying where the link was tapped (for example, a kanji sheet). Hitokuji’s makers count these in aggregate, through App Store and Google Play reports, to learn which links are useful. The tag contains no device or personal identifiers.
Hitoji works fully offline. It doesn’t send anything over the network; links you tap open in Hitokuji, the App Store, Google Play, your browser or your mail app.
Questions: hello@hitoji.com. Effective 26 October 2026.
Licences and data
ライセンスThe stroke and reading data bundled in Hitoji is shared under the same licences: strokes.json (KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0) and kanji.json (KANJIDIC2, CC BY-SA 4.0).