JLPT N5 Kanji Practice Sheets — Free Printable PDF
The JLPT N5 covers the roughly 80 kanji every beginner meets first — everyday basics like 日, 人, 大 and the numbers that appear in almost any Japanese sentence. Writing them out by hand is still the fastest way to make them stick. Pick a set below, choose your grid density, and print a clean practice booklet with stroke-order guides for every character.
One page per kanji — a large model character plus rows of genkōyōshi practice squares to trace and copy.
Stroke-order guides — numbered stroke diagrams from the KanjiVG project (can be turned off).
Your paper, your grid — A4, A3, Letter or Legal, portrait or landscape, 6–28 squares per row.
Free and private — the PDF is generated in your browser; no account, no watermark, no upload.
All 79 kanji in this set
Characters are ordered by how often they appear in written Japanese — the most common come first. Choose any character to open it in the generator, or scroll down to print the whole set.
A single practice sheet holds up to 50 kanji, so this set is split into 2 parts — each button below opens the generator with its part preloaded. The kanji are ordered most-common-first, so Part 1 is the best place to start.