Test Your Book's Kanji
Book Check
Enter text and get its kanji breakdown to see what the reading level is. Great for checking out books, but works well for websites and anything else textual. If you have completed a test here, you can generate study lists for kanji that YOU will need to learn for the book, do drills here, or export to anki if you prefer.
- Play with the dials manually to get a better idea of what you should be studying.
- Longer texts work better than short ones.
- This isn't exactly reading difficulty. There are plenty of hard words that use common kanji. And you'll often see names with difficult kanji.
- This works poorly in determining the difficulty of jargon heavy medical or ancient texts, but the wordlist is still useful.
To compare text to your personal knowledge level: