JLPT N5

The N5 kanji

The first 103 kanji: numbers, days of the week, time, people, places, directions, and the verbs you use every day (see, go, eat, read). Most have few strokes and clear meanings, which is why every path starts here. Learn them in groups of five, draw each one, and the pattern of radicals starts to show.

103kanji
800words at this level, roughly
6.2strokes 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.