Reading Japanese and unfamiliar Kanji

[Plykiya]

I'm able to read hiragana and katakana characters but I have no knowledge of kanji whatsoever. Is there any easy way to search up the kanji being used or is it just up to me to learn a certain level beforehand? What's the general reading grade level of manga geared towards teens and manga geared toward adults?

Thanks.

 

[hotdogonnastick]

When I come across an unfamiliar kanji without furigana next to it, I use the Google Handwriting keyboard with Japanese installed along with the Jisho site. Works every single time. If the kanji is too small for me to even be able to tell what it is, but I can make out one or two radicals, I use the radical search on Jisho. Jisho is my lover.

 

[Holo]

I'd estimate JLPT N4+ for teen manga, and probably N2+ for adult manga.

 

[ixlone]

Obenkyou app on Android for learning kanji on the go.

https://www.memrise.com/ also has some good stuff.

 

[pizzapicante27]

Nah, Im N5 and I can read Shounen Jump no problem, my teacher was able to read newspapers at N3 (though admitedly he was closer to N2 level).

 

[trov34]

Try this site if you're looking for specific kanji. You'll have to identify the radicals and number of strokes though.
http://jisho.org/#radical

 

[Vilis]

I use ShareX's OCR tool and Jisho. It's surprisingly accurate.

 

[lly]

You can also try to draw the kanji on
https://kanji.sljfaq.org/
Remember to check "ignore stroke order".

 

[anonymus]

Use anki and follow this guide djtguide.neocities.org/guide.html. I follow it and after a year I can say that I still don't know much, to be realistic there is no any easy way to do it and any practice you took if you do it even on every single day basis it will still took you around 4-5 years to understand japanese kanji to normal level reading, not that I mind about that since to be able to recognize any form of kanji is really satisfying when skimming raw sources

 

[Pika]

The handwriting on google translate also helps

Learning Chinese helps a lot since most of them are just Chinese (onyomi has a slight different pronunciation)