List of jōyō kanji

Japanese writing
Components
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Uses
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The jōyō kanji system of representing written Japanese consists of 2,136 characters.

List of characters[]

• For brevity, only one English translation is given per kanji.
• The "Grade" column specifies the grade in which the kanji is taught in Elementary schools in Japan. Grade "S" means that it is taught in secondary school.
• The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table.
• This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, 匁).
• Hyphens in the kun'yomi readings separate kanji from their okurigana.
• The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible. This requires using the characters