JLPT N1

The N1 kanji

The last 1,340: the rest of the 2,136 jōyō kanji every adult in Japan is expected to read, plus kanji that are common in names. Many are rare on their own and live in a handful of formal or literary words. Learn them in context and let the stroke order carry the rest.

1,340kanji
10,000words at this level, roughly
11.4strokes on average
The N1 vocabulary list

By stroke count

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There is no official list: the JLPT stopped publishing one in 2010. This one follows Jonathan Waller's lists, the ones most study sites use; the jōyō kanji they leave out are placed by the easiest word that uses them. Close enough to be useful, not a promise.

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.