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List of <span title="Japanese-language romanization"><i lang="ja-Latn">jōyō</i></span> kanji

List of jōyō kanji

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The jōyō kanji (常用漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [dʑoːjoːkaꜜɲdʑi], lit. "regular-use kanji") system of representing written Japanese currently 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 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 "Old" column reflects the official kyūjitai specified in the standard jōyō table;[1] it does not include unofficial, extended, or Asahi characters.[discuss]
  • 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.
More information #, New (Shinjitai) ...

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Notes

  1. [1]
    The Cabinet of Japan. Jōyō Kanji Table Archived 2011-08-31 at the Wayback Machine. November 30, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Jōyō Kanji Hyō" 常用漢字表 [List of Joyo Kanji] (PDF) (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  3. [3]
    See , page 2, bullet point 7: "Readings indented one character to the right are special readings, or readings with very narrow use. Indented reading for which a prefecture name is indicated in the 'Remarks' column are, as a general rule, only ever used in the specified prefecture name."
  4. [4]
    These characters are Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs for which the old form (kyūjitai) and the new form (shinjitai) have been unified under the Unicode standard. Although the old and new forms are distinguished under the JIS X 0213 standard, the old forms map to Unicode CJK Compatibility Ideographs which are considered by Unicode to be canonically equivalent to the new forms and may not be distinguished by user agents. Therefore depending on the user environment, it may not be possible to see the distinction between old and new forms of the characters. In particular, all Unicode normalization methods merge the old characters with the new ones.
  5. [5]
    The 5 kanji 茨・牙・韓・𠮟・栃 have specifically designated design variations described in the official Jōyō Kanji list, which apply only to those individual kanji.
  6. [6]
    These kanji readings are offset by one character to the right in the official Jōyō Kanji list, and are followed by a Japanese prefecture name in the remarks column. Therefore, in principle, these readings will only ever be used for those specific prefecture names and not in any other words.
  7. [7]
    The official Jōyō Kanji list states that "Due to the print typefaces which are currently available in computer systems, it is acceptable to use characters different from the ones show in this list (e.g. using 頬・賭・剥 instead of 頰・賭・剝, etc.)". Although the official document does not specifically designate the characters which this statement applies to, it is likely that it is applicable to the following 14 characters: 淫・葛・僅・煎・詮・嘲・捗・溺・塡・賭・剝・箸・蔽・頰.
  8. [8]
    The 5 kanji 餌・遡・遜・謎・餅 use one of the radicals 辶 / 𩙿. As stated on the first page of the official Jōyō Kanji list, although the officially correct form of those characters uses the forms 辶 / 𩙿, it is permissible to use instead the forms 辶 / 飠, which are indicated in square brackets in the official list.
Look up Appendix:Joyo kanji by reading or List of jōyō kanji in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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