It has great examples for each kanji for use by offering 5 or more vocabulary words.All it's missing is the pictoral memory device (that I bought it for!). It doesn't offer a GOOD linkage of the kanji with a picture. But still they're not bad. I was looking for something like, in hiragana for example, the character "ki" kind of does look like a key. But may be I was asking for too much, but if that's the kind of thing you're looking for you won't find it in these cards. Instead the meaning of the kanji is broken down to its elements, which is helpful for some kanji but not all. For some of the cards they do offer good ones (like the one on their cover) but not for all of them. Anyway, wasn't EXACTLY what I expected, but flashcards are still good to use (beats making your own!)