Joyo Grade 2 kanji
160 kanji - the full Grade 2 set from the Ministry of Education's Joyo list.
Grade 2 of the Joyo kanji list builds on the foundational set with everyday vocabulary - weather, school subjects, family situations beyond the immediate, simple adjectives, and the verbs that show up in conversational Japanese.
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, simple signs, and the bulk of educational material aimed at primary school. New characters include the words for spring, summer, autumn, winter; the more granular family terms (older brother specifically, not just brother); body-related vocabulary (head, neck, foot, hand-in-context); and basic emotional language. The list also includes the first set of kanji whose readings are less guessable from their components - the on-readings start to feel arbitrary in places, which is 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
WaniKani teaches the full Grade 2 set. By around WaniKani level 15 a typical learner has the bulk of Grade 2 at Guru I or higher.
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.