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JLPT Kanji N3: Volume One — 184 Characters, Taught in Fourteen Chapters — cover

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JLPT Kanji N3 — Volume 1

Volume One — 184 Characters, Taught in Fourteen Chapters

“The half of N3 that carries the most weight in ordinary sentences.”

In short

Volume 1 of the JLPT N3 kanji set: 184 kanji in 14 themed chapters. The half of N3 that carries the most weight in ordinary sentences. Every kanji gets its own spread with readings, example words, stroke order, practice and sentences with furigana and romaji.

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The books are written in English.

What you get

  • Readings you can hear: every on'yomi and kun'yomi with its own example words.
  • Stroke order before the pen: each frame adds one stroke, drawn dark over what you have already written in grey.
  • Every chapter closes itself: reference sheets, then practice, then the answers.
  • Particles, not just meanings: each chapter lists its verbs with the particle each one takes.
  • Furigana and romaji on every line, so you can read the whole book from the first page.
  • More than 2,000 real sentences, and an index of every character by stroke count.

About this book

N3 is where kanji stops being a list and starts being a language.

This volume takes the half of N3 that carries the most weight in ordinary sentences: thinking and deciding, feelings, the body, family, movement, work, money, government, conflict, speech, quantity, time and weather — and it gives every character a spread of its own, laid out the same way every time.

Readings you can hear. Every on'yomi and kun'yomi with its own example words, because a reading you cannot hear in a real word is not yet knowledge.

Stroke order before the pen. Each frame adds one stroke, drawn dark over what you have already written in grey — and it comes before the tracing, never after.

Every chapter closes itself. Reference sheets, then practice, then the answers. You never turn to the back of the book for an answer.

Particles, not just meanings. Each chapter lists the verbs it teaches with the particle each one takes — the part nobody teaches and everybody gets wrong.

Furigana and romaji on every line, so you can read the whole book from the first page.

More than 2,000 real sentences, and an index of every character by stroke count with the page it is taught on.

Who this book is for

Teenagers and adults studying Japanese on their own or alongside a class, preparing for the JLPT or simply reading more.

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