After finishing the joyo kanji list, where should I look to study more kanji?

4 comments

1. The Kanken has more kanji: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_Kentei#Level_Pre-1

2. > knowing the 2130+ kanjis is not even close to make you comfortably read Japanese media.

   start anyway.

   youll learn what you need there

3. kanji aren’t words, learn words

   words aren’t sufficient alone, learn grammar

   kanji is just spelling, it comes along for the ride, don’t fixate on it

   there’s a lot of name-specific and [hyougai kanji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%8Dgai_kanji) to learn as well, but you’ll pick it up in context as you read

4. depends what you mean by “know them”

   if you know an English keyword when someone flashes a kanji at you, that isn’t too useful of a skill except when trying to guess the meanings of words you don’t know (and even then, you won’t know how to pronounce them usually)

   if you know every vocabulary word containing all of those 2130 kanji , what it means, how to use it in a sentence, then uh yeah you are doing some serious study there