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80 characters to explore - readings, meanings, stroke counts, and vocabulary context for every kanji at N5 level
80
Characters
1–14
Stroke Range
279
Vocab Words
80 kanji · 80 shown
The N5 set is the smallest on the ladder and almost entirely concrete: numbers, days of the week, directions, family members, and a handful of everyday verbs. Nearly all of them appear in compounds you will meet immediately, which is why they stick faster than the raw count suggests.
Learn these in the words that use them rather than as isolated characters. 日 on its own is abstract, but 日曜日, 今日 and 毎日 give it three anchors. The vocabulary lists on this site are grouped by theme for exactly that reason.
The exam never asks you to write a kanji by hand, so time spent on stroke-perfect reproduction is time not spent on readings. What it does test is whether you can pick the right reading in context, and most N5 characters have at least two.
Meanings shown above are the primary sense of each character. Individual kanji often carry several senses, and the full list for any character is available by selecting it.
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