JLPT N2

The N2 kanji

388 kanji for the Japanese of the news, the office and the novel: economics, law, science, feelings in detail and abstract nouns. Compounds do most of the work now, so learn each kanji through two or three of its words rather than on its own.

388kanji
6,000words at this level, roughly
10.1strokes on average
The N2 vocabulary list

By stroke count

8 strokes

12 strokes

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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. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.