1. List of characters

2. See also

3. Notes

4. External links

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 then kun'yomi), 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 "Old" column reflects the official kyūjitai specified in the standard jōyō table;^[1] it does not include unofficial, extended, or Asahi characters.{{discuss|Kanji_variants}}
• The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible. This requires using the characters 𠮟, 塡, 剝, 頰 which are outside of Japan's basic character set, JIS X 0208 (one of them is also outside the Unicode BMP). In practice, these characters are usually replaced by the characters 叱, 填, 剥, 頬, which are present in JIS X 0208.
• The readings presented here are those noted in the official Jōyō table.^[2] Special readings and uncommon readings are indicated in brackets.^[3] Other readings (generally less common, such as the nanori) may also exist.