Joyo Grade 2 kanji
160 kanji - the full Grade 2 set from the Ministry of Education's Joyo list.
Weather, school subjects, family beyond the immediate household, simple adjectives, and the verbs of conversational Japanese: Grade 2 moves past the starter set into everyday vocabulary.
The Grade 2 set doubles the cumulative kanji count, and the practical reading payoff is significant: children at this level can read a wide range of children's books and simple signs, plus the bulk of educational material aimed at primary school. New characters include the words for spring, summer, autumn, and winter, more granular family terms such as the specific kanji for older brother, body vocabulary like head, neck, and foot, and basic emotional language. The list also holds the first kanji whose readings are less guessable from their components; the on-readings start to feel arbitrary in places, a deliberate Ministry choice to introduce phonetic variation early. Many words that take a single kanji in Grade 1 expand to two-kanji compounds in Grade 2, so reading speed grows along with character recognition.
WaniKani coverage
The full Grade 2 set is in the WaniKani curriculum. A typical learner has the bulk of it at Guru I or higher by around level 15.
To see exactly which of the 160 Grade 2 kanji you have already learned, head to the Joyo coverage tool - it ties your live WaniKani SRS progress to the lists on this site and breaks down coverage by grade.
All 160 Grade 2 kanji
See your personal coverage
The grid above is the same for every visitor. To see how many of the 160 Grade 2 kanji you have personally learned, open the Joyo coverage tool and paste a WaniKani personal access token. Your token stays in your browser; nothing is stored on a server.