Balinese character recognition is a technique to recognize feature or pattern of Balinese character. Feature of Balinese character is generated through feature extraction process. This research using handwritten Balinese character. Feature extraction is a process to obtain the feature of character. In this research, feature extraction process generated semantic and direction feature of handwritten Balinese character. Recognition is using K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm to recognize 81 handwritten Balinese character. The feature of Balinese character images tester are compared with reference features. Result of the recognition system with K=3 and reference=10 is achieved a success rate of 97,53%.