MEXT and the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Visit ↗Japan's official kanji tables: the elementary and secondary curricula from the Ministry of Education, the joyo list and the name-kanji list from the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
A few rows
Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.
一
Grade 1
Taught in the first year of school.
亀
Secondary school · frequency rank 1,353
Turtle, held back past primary school though every child knows the word.
What we hold
- Elementary school kanji
- 1,026
- Secondary school kanji
- 1,110
- Name kanji
- 763
- Last brought in
- 5 days agoAug 30, 2026
What we take
- Which kanji are taught in which school year
- The readings approved for each grade
- The name kanji permitted in registered names
Terms
Government publications, reproduced as reference data. The curated meanings written over them are our own.