Kyōiku kanji

Japanese writing

Kanji

Kana

• Hiragana
• Katakana
• Hentaigana
• Man'yōgana
• Sogana

Uses

• Furigana
• Okurigana

Rōmaji

• Hepburn (colloquial)
• Kunrei (ISO)
• Nihon (transliteration)

Wāpuro

Punctuation

• v
• t
• e

Kyōiku kanji (教育漢字^?, literally "education kanji"), also known as Gakunenbetsu kanji haitōhyō (学年別漢字配当表^?, literally "list of kanji by school year") is a list of 1,006 kanji and associated readings developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education that prescribes which kanji, and which readings of kanji, Japanese schoolchildren should learn for each year of primary school. Although the list is designed for Japanese children, it can also be used as a sequence of learning characters by non-native speakers as a means of focusing on the most commonly used kanji.

Kyōiku kanji is a subset of Jōyō kanji.

• 1 Versions of kyōiku list
• 2 The list by grade
  • 2.1 First grade (80 kanji)
  • 2.2 Second grade (160 kanji)
  • 2.3 Third grade (200 kanji)
  • 2.4 Fourth grade (200 kanji)
  • 2.5 Fifth grade (185 kanji)
  • 2.6 Sixth grade (181 kanji)
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

Versions of kyōiku list

A list of all jōyō kanji according to Halpern's KLD indexing system, with kyōiku kanji coloured according to grade level.

• 1946 created with 881 characters
• 1977 expanded to 996 characters
• 1982 expanded to 1,006 characters

The list by grade

Note 1: Many kanji have complex meanings and nuances, or express concepts not found in the English language. In those cases, the English meanings mentioned here constitute approximations at best.

Note 2: In the Kun readings, readings after - (hyphen) are Okurigana.

First grade (80 kanji)

Second grade (160 kanji)

Third grade (200 kanji)

Fourth grade (200 kanji)

Fifth grade (185 kanji)

Sixth grade (181 kanji)

See also

• Learning kanji
• MEXT

External links

• (Japanese) Elementary School Curriculum Guidelines, Part 2 Section 1: Japanese — Official list of kyōiku kanji by grade