"What?" Jax tapped the keys, but his avatar stopped moving. The other players in the server froze. The cheerful Irish jig music slowed down, warping into a low, distorted drone.
From the center of the town square, a giant, glitching Leprechaun emerged. It wasn't a pet. It was a massive, shimmering entity made of broken code and static. It turned its hollow, pixelated eyes toward Jax’s character.
A message appeared in the chat box, but it wasn't from a player. It was from the script itself. “You didn't find the gold, Jax. The gold found you.”
He watched months of work vanish in seconds. As the last pet disappeared, the screen went black, leaving only a single line of green text:
Should we explore a where Jax tries to hunt down the mysterious creator of the script, or
His screen was a chaotic dashboard of purple windows and scrolling lines of code. With a click, the "Auto-Farm" engaged. On his second monitor, his character—a blocky avatar wearing a top hat—began moving with supernatural speed, vacuuming up clover coins before other players could even click.
Suddenly, the screen glitched. The GUI window turned a deep, blood-red.
The laptop fans roared like a jet engine. The smell of ozone filled the alley. Jax tried to close the lid, but it was stuck. On the screen, the Leprechaun reached out a hand, and the "OP Script" window began deleting his entire inventory—not just the event pets, but every Titan and Huge he’d ever owned.
The Kanshudo kanji usefulness rating shows you how useful a kanji is for you to learn.
has a Kanshudo usefulness of , which means it is among the most useful kanji in Japanese.
is one of the 138 kana characters, denoted with a usefulness rating of K. The kana are the most useful characters in Japanese, and we recommend you thoroughly learn all kana before progressing to kanji.
All kanji in our system are rated from 1-8, where 1 is the most useful.
The 2136 Jōyō kanji have usefulness levels from 1 to 5, and are denoted with badges like this:
The 138 kana are rated with usefulness K, and have a badge like this:
The Kanshudo usefulness level shows you how useful a Japanese word is for you to learn.
has a Kanshudo usefulness level of , which means it is among the
most useful words in Japanese.
All words in our system
are rated from 1-12, where 1 is the most useful.
Words with a usefulness level of 9 or better are amongst the most useful 50,000 words in Japanese, and
have a colored badge in search results, eg:
Many useful words have multiple forms, and less common
forms have a badge that looks like this:
The JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test, 日本語能力試験) is the standard test of Japanese language ability for non-Japanese.
would first come up in level
N.
Kanshudo displays a badge indicating which level of the JLPT words, kanji and grammar points might first be used in:
indicates N5 (the first and easiest level)
indicates N1 (the highest and most difficult)
You can use Kanshudo to study for the JLPT. Kanshudo usefulness levels for kanji, words and grammar points map directly to JLPT levels, so your mastery level on Kanshudo is a direct indicator of your readiness for the JLPT exams.
Kanshudo usefulness counts up from 1, whereas the JLPT counts down from 5 - so the first JLPT level, N5, is equivalent to Kanshudo usefulness level .
The JLPT vocabulary lists were compiled by Wikipedia and Tanos from past papers. Sometimes the form listed by the sources is not the most useful form. In case of doubt, we advise you to learn the Kanshudo recommended form. Words that appear in the JLPT lists in a different form are indicated with a lighter colored 'shadow' badge, like this: .