JLPT Kanji List

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This is a list of the JLPT kanji by level. It's in plain text so you can copy it into whatever tool you're using (my particular use case was to add them to my Satori Reader known list as I mastered each level). Every other list I found was some dressed up web page. I lifted these off my other よく使うツール Kanshudo

I'm sure it's not exact, but from memory N5 to N2 correspond to the kanji a Japanese student would learn in middle school (the kyouiku kanji, education kanji, or 教育漢字), while N1 would be what is learned through high school. This full set of 2136 should include all of the jouyou kanji (joyo kanji, common use kanji, or 常用漢字), which are essentially the only kanji you should need for life in Japanese, outside of kanji from technical or specialist fields, or literary or archaic kanji.

The upshot of this rambling is to that to be able to read most simple news and media, you would be able to get by just learning the 1000 middle school kanji, and would begin to notice a lot of ability to read before getting there. After that, stopping at the full 2136 would leave you able to claim that mystical title: "fluency".

I initially never really had a solid concept of just "how many kanji there are". There's obviously more than this, but being able to see them all, how many there are, and grouped into stages really helped motivate me to learn them. It helped me to create smart goals, and to understand just how far I had to go and how far I'd come.

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The list is separated by level separated with newlines. The n1 set has a newline every 100 kanji. The number of kanji in each set is: 80, 170, 370, 380, and 1136.

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