LibGuides: Japanese dictionaries: Kanji 漢字

Online Dictionaries

Jisho Japanese English Dictionary
Includes audio files for pronunciation and Quicktime movies for stroke order.
Kanji.net
Multiple search options: pronunciation, radicals, stroke count...

Recommended titles in order of difficulty.

Kodansha Learner's Dictionary
Call Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL 677.5 .K63 2001

ISBN: 4770028555
The Kanji Dictionary
Call Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL677.5 .S625 1996

ISBN: 0804820589

This uses a different indexing system for characters from Nelson and traditional Japanese language character indexes. Some people love it and some hate it -- the choice is yours.
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary
Call Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL677.5 .N44 1997

ISBN: 0804820368
Dai Kan-Wa jiten by Morohashi, Tetsuji
Call Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL1425 .M6 1966

This is the mother of all kanji dictionaries. Essential for people working on classical Japanese and obscure pre-modern texts.

Mainichi kanji
Kanji Alive
Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in current versions of all major web browsers.
Kanji Practice (Dartmouth College)
Website created at Dartmouth College for studying Japanese kanji.
Kanji Renshuu
Kakijun 漢字の正しい書き方
This is an excellent tool to remind you/teach you the proper stroke order for kanji.