JLPT N4

The N4 kanji

The next 181 kanji, for everyday life: weather, work, study, family, feelings, buying and selling, the body. Readings start to matter more: many of these kanji appear in compounds you already use, and knowing the on reading unlocks whole families of words.

181kanji
1,500words at this level, roughly
8.8strokes on average

By stroke count

There is no official list: the JLPT stopped publishing one in 2010. This is the list most textbooks and apps agree on, from KANJIDIC2. Close enough to be useful, not a promise.

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings and meanings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.