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Textbooks

Communicating in Japanese, Hiroyoshi Noto, 1999, Sotakusha
『コミュニケーションのための日本語』
Lesson 6 – 31
Intermediate Japanese for University Students, Hiroyoshi Noto, 1996, Taishukan Shoten
『英文　中級日本語』
Lesson 1 – 20
Mimi o sumaseba, Hiroyoshi Noto, Harumi Hibino Lory, Yoshiko Uchida, 2000 (used only at the University of Chicago)
『耳をすませば』
Lesson 1 – 14
Majo no takkyuubin, Hiroyoshi Noto, Harumi Hibino Lory, 2000 (used only at the University of Chicago)
『魔女の宅急便』
Lesson 1 – 7
Basic Kanji Book, Chieko Kano, Yuri Shimizu, Hiroko Takenaka, Eriko Ishii, 2004, Bonjinsha
『基本漢字500』
Lesson 1 – 45
Genki, Eri Banno, Kyoko Shinagawa, Yoko Sakane, Hiroki Ono, Kyoko Tokashiki, 1999, Japan Times
『げんき』
Lesson 3 – 23
Kanji Look & Learn, Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Kyoko Shinagawa, Kaori tajima, Kyoko tokashiki, 2009, Japan Times
Lesson 1 – 32
Note: the kanji 吉 in lesson 27 is neither second level JLPT kanji nor educational kanji and thus is not supported by Kanji alive.
Adventures in Japanese, Hiromi Peterson and Naomi Omizo, 2007, 3rd edition, Cheng & Tsui Company
Vol. 1, Lesson 13 – 15
Vol. 2, Lesson 2 – 7 (no kanji in lesson 1 and 8) , 9 – 15 (no kanji in lesson 12)
Vol. 3, Lesson 1 – 4, 6 – 9 (no kanji in lesson 5)
Vol. 4, Lesson 1 – 4, 6 – 9 (no kanji in lesson 5)
Note: the kanji 嬉 from Chapter 7 of the fourth volume is neither a second level JLPTkanji nor an educational kanji and thus is not supported by Kanji alive.
Adventures in Japanese, Hiromi Peterson and Naomi Omizo, 2014, 4th edition, Cheng & Tsui Company
Vol. 1, Lesson 13 – 15
Intermediate Kanji Book Vol.1, Chieko Kano, Yuri Shimizu, Hiroko Takenaka, Eriko Ishii, 2011, the revised third edition, Bonjinsha
Lesson 1 – 10, LR1 and LR2.
Note: the kanji 訂 and 援 in lesson 3, the kanji 裕 in lesson 4, the kanji 拍 in LR1 (treated as Chapter 11 in Kanji alive), the kanji 併 and 睡 in lesson 7, the kanji 撃, 振, 煮 in lesson 9 and the kanji 被 and 購 in LR2 (treated as Chapter 12 in Kanji alive) are neither second level JLPT kanji nor educational kanji and thus are not supported by Kanji alive.
TOBIRA: Gateway to Advanced Japanese Learning Through Content and Multimedia,Mayumi Oka, Michio Tsutsui, Junko Kondo, Shouko Emori, Yoshiro Hanai, and Satoru Ishikawa, Kuroshio Shuppan
『上級へのとびら』
Lesson 1 – 15

Study Lists / Lesson Plans

Advanced Placement (AP) Kanji
AP日本語試験の漢字リスト
Lesson 1 – 20

Macquarie University
Macquarie大学日本語111の漢字リスト
Lesson 12 – 22

Must Learn Radicals - Kanji

The 214 traditional kanji radicals and their variants

Kanji are classified in kanji dictionaries according to their main components which are called radicals (roots) in English and 部首 (ぶしゅ) in Japanese. 部 (ぶ) means a group and 首 (しゅ) means a chief (head/neck). There are 214 historical radicals derived from the 18th century Kangxi dictionary.
Every kanji without exception only has one radical / 部首 (ぶしゅ). Each radical has a meaning(s) and lends its meaning(s) to the kanji of which it is part. Please take a look at the examples below. The right part of these three kanji is the same but the left part is different. The left part of these kanji is their radical. Note how each radical imparts its meaning to the kanji:
時: The radical of this kanji is 日 (sun, day, time). The meaning of this kanji is “time.”
詩: The radical of this kanji is 言 (words, to speak, say). The meaning of this kanji is “poetry, poem”.
持: The radical of this kanji is 扌(hand). The meaning of this kanji is “to hold”.
For this reason it is very important to learn each kanji’s radical, as well as the meaning(s) of its radical. Not all 214 radicals are in use in current Japanese but you will soon become familiar with the most important ones and their variants.
There are no official Japanese names for radicals. But there are certain commonly-used names. That is why you will find differences in the Japanese names for the radicals on different websites and dictionaries.
Radicals are categorized into seven main groups according to their position within a kanji. Please note that some kanji are also radicals in and of themselves (such as 大, 日, 月). In those cases, the kanji and the radical are one and the same, and thus the position of the radical in the kanji is irrelevant. As a result they do not fall into any one of the seven categories.

へん (hen)		Radicals on the left side of the kanji
つくり (tsukuri)		Radicals on the right
かんむり (kanmuri)		Radicals on the top
あし (ashi)		Radicals on the bottom
かまえ (kamae)		Radicals which enclose the kanji
たれ (tare)		Radicals which "hang down"
にょう (nyou)		Radicals which wrap around the bottom of a character