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What is JoyoKanjiKai?

JoyoKanjiKai is an award-winning website that lets you check whether or not Japanese kanji characters are jōyō (common-use)* …because sometimes, rather than fussing about all the different readings, meanings and stroke order, all you really want to know about a kanji is: ‘is it jōyō?’

Paste or type in any Japanese character and instantly see if it’s one of the official 2,136 jōyō kanji.

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* In addition to the Jōyō Kanji, the site also recognizes the Jinmeiyō Kanji and almost all of the kanji listed in Jim Breen’s Kanjidic2.