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Writing Practice

Type or paste kanji, hiragana, or katakana to generate a printable practice sheet. Each character gets readings, faded stroke order guides to trace, and empty boxes to fill. On paid plans the sheet options change the paper, box size, guides and how much detail is printed.

As a guest you can print a one-character sheet. Log in or create a free account for more characters. See plans for sheet options and higher limits.
Example

This is a 3 page sheet for 日本語 made with the sheet options of the paid plans: the first page is shown below, open the PDF to see them all.

The first page of the example practice sheet for 日本語
Paper
A4
Characters per page
1 per page
Box size
Medium (10 per row)
Guide lines
Centre cross
Tracing guides
5 guides
Guide darkness
Medium
Details
Full
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Top to bottom, left to right

Strokes generally start at the top left. Horizontal strokes come before the vertical strokes that cross them.

Use the guide lines

The centre lines in each box help you balance the components, keeping the character the same size every time.

Trace, then write

Trace the faded guides first while saying the readings aloud, then fill the empty boxes from memory.