✶ The whole set, one page
常用漢字 The Jōyō Kanji Map
All 2,136 Jōyō kanji — the characters the Japanese state expects an educated reader to know — laid out in the order they are actually learned. Each band is a Kanji Kentei level (級) tied to a school grade, with a colour gradient running from Grade 1 to the complete set.
The colours are simply a visual layer over a real spine: the 級 ranks of the Kanji Kentei and the school grade that teaches each character. Click any kanji for its readings, meaning, stroke count and level. Character data is from KANJIDIC2. Bands 10級–5級 follow the official post-2020 Kyōiku school grades; bands 4級–2級 follow the Kanji Kentei levels. (The 2020 curriculum moved 20 prefecture characters — 岡, 埼, 鹿, 栃… — down into elementary grades while the Kentei still ranks them higher; those sit in their school-grade band here.)
By radical
部首The same 2,136 characters, grouped instead by their Kangxi radical — the classifying component every kanji is filed under. Each disc is one radical, sized by how many Jōyō characters share it. Click a radical to fan its kanji into a ring, where each character is sized by how common it is in everyday print; click a character to open its detail.
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