Printables
Reference charts and practice sheets built for printing.
Reference sheets designed to be printed rather than scrolled — alphabet charts, symbol lookups and stroke-order practice grids.
They exist because some things are genuinely easier on paper next to a keyboard than in another browser tab.
Printed reference has one genuine advantage over a browser tab: you can put it beside the keyboard and compare options without losing your place. Choosing between four similar cursive alphabets is much faster on a single sheet than by scrolling back and forth between them.
The sheets are laid out to survive black-and-white printing on standard paper. Nothing depends on colour, and nothing is cropped at the margins on either A4 or US Letter.
Two of the sheets are practice grids rather than references. The hiragana and katakana pages lay out stroke order square by square, which is the part of learning a syllabary that genuinely benefits from a pen — tracing a character fixes the direction and sequence in a way that reading it never quite does.
What you'll learn
- Why stroke-order practice works better on paper than on screen
- How to print without losing anything to margins on A4 or US Letter
- How to compare similar alphabets side by side without scrolling
- Which sheets are useful for teaching and classroom handouts
- Which styled alphabets exist, side by side on one sheet
- The most-used symbols grouped for quick lookup
- Stroke order for the hiragana and katakana syllabaries