6000 kanji

7 comments

1. you don’t need to know 6000 kanji unless you’re aiming for kanken 1

   if you want kanji by grade level learned in japan: https://kanjicards.org/kanji-list-by-grade.html

2. Yes. There are only about 2000 kanji you must no (Joyo Kanji)

3. 6000 are too many even for the Chinese.

4. It’s how I will evolve into a true badass.

5. My partner is Japanese when I told her I wanna learn 5k kanji. She told me (….hmmmmm that’s a lot, you don’t need to learn that much). I would follow what u/eruciform said. Unless that’s what you aiming for….

6. I learned the top 2000 most common Kanji and I have to say, after about the 1,500 mark, you get to Kanji almost never used, mostly used in one single word that’s rarely used, some so obscure I don’t even understand what the English translation given even means.

   If you really enjoy Kanji and want to be a Kanji legend, go for it! Just go in aware it’s not going to be of much practical use learning a bunch of Kanji which are obsolete, only used in names, and obscure words nobody knows.

7. If all you know are the joyo kanji (~2100 kanji), it’s already plenty. Definitely don’t need to know 6000 kanji to be literate. One could arguably get away with knowing fewer kanji and still have no issues being literate for the most part, but knowing the joyo kanji would be the goal.