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How Many Kanji are there?

Source	Number	Level
Learnt at shougakkou (小学校)	1,000	Schoolchild
Jouyou kanji (常用漢字)	1,945	Good reader
JIS level one kanji Kanken level pre-one	3,000	Excellent reader
JIS level one and two kanji Kanken level one	6,000	Kanji expert
Dai Kan-Wa Jiten	50,000	Maniac

Index for Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji"

Reviewing the Kanji

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Last modification on: Thu, 09 May 2013 .