JLPT N2 kanji list

367 kanji - the full N2 character set as reconstructed from the pre-2010 official syllabus.

JLPT N2 is the upper-intermediate level - the qualification most companies in Japan ask for on a resume, and the threshold at which a learner can read newspapers, business writing, and university material with effort but no constant lookup.

N2 characters cover professional and academic vocabulary: business and economics, public administration, journalism, the sciences, and the wider end of literary writing. New characters at this level are individually rarer than at N3 (you might go a whole day of casual reading without encountering some of them), but they appear so densely in formal text that not knowing them costs you. The list also introduces a notable share of characters that share readings or visual elements with N3 and N1 entries, so confusion errors become a meaningful study cost. Compared to N3, the N2 set leans more on understanding kanji combinations in context than learning new isolated characters - many N2 entries are familiar from N3 vocabulary in different roles. The N2 list happens to have the same character count as N3, which is expected rather than a duplication error: it introduces the same number of new characters, but they are different, rarer kanji.

WaniKani coverage

WaniKani covers around 76% of N2, with some less common characters absent. By WaniKani level 40 a significant chunk of the N2 set is at Guru I or higher.

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All 367 N2 kanji

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