[Elementary School] Let's Learn Kanji with Songs! The Fun Kanji Song

Elementary school students, are you having trouble memorizing kanji?

With kanji, it’s not just the shapes—you also have to learn the correct stroke order, on-yomi and kun-yomi readings, stroke counts, radicals, and more.

On top of that, there are 80 characters in first grade, 160 in second grade… in fact, you need to learn over 1,000 characters by graduation!

Once you develop a dislike for kanji, it can be tough to catch up.

In this article, we’ll introduce “kanji songs” that make learning kanji fun!

They focus mainly on lower-grade kanji, but middle- and upper-grade students should give them a listen for review, too.

Playlist

[Elementary School] Let's Learn Kanji with Songs! The Fun Kanji Song
	Title	Playlist	Review
1	On-kun Song (2nd Grade Elementary School)		Teaching materials that make learning kanji fun through songs
2	Let’s count with kanji		A song for counting from 1 to 20 in kanji
3	A Pretty Painful Year of Puns		A way to make learning the lunar calendar fun through song
4	Feel it.		Enjoyably educating children with kanji-learning songs
5	Song of the Days of the Week		With the Days-of-the-Week Song, you can memorize the days in order by learning the origins of their kanji.
6	Let’s sing! Feels good!		Learn kanji enjoyably through songs
7	Radical Song (Crown)		Teaching material for learning radical crowns through songs
8	Song of Radicals		An educational song that makes learning radicals fun through music
9	Fish Lovers: The Song of Fish Radicals		Have fun learning fish-related kanji through song
10	On-kun Reading Song (1st Grade)		Let's enjoy memorizing Onyomi and Kunyomi with a Kanji song
11	Song of the kanji learned in first grade of elementary school		S5 produces the perfect songs for learning elementary school kanji
12	Radical Song (Leg)		Learn kanji with the “leg/foot” radical through song
13	Radical Song (Kamae)		Characteristics and memorization tips for enclosure-type radicals (kamae)
14	Radical Song (Right-side component)		Learn the radicals on the right side through songs
15	Radical Song (Nyō and Tare)		A song for learning the origin of the ‘nyō-tare’ radical
16	Radical Song (hen / ones to mind their form and name)		Learn the types and names of the radical “hen” through a fun song
17	Radical Song (hen / ones whose names are the same as their forms A)		An introductory song for learning the radical “hen”
18	Song of Radicals (hen / ones whose names are the same as their shapes B)		Introduction to learning radicals through songs