Joyo Grade 3 kanji
200 kanji - the full Grade 3 set from the Ministry of Education's Joyo list.
Year-three textbooks - reading, social studies, science, basic civics - are what this grade equips a Japanese child to read. The 200 kanji cover school subjects and broader daily-life vocabulary.
Grade 3 is where reading material starts to diversify in earnest. Natural phenomena arrive - climate, weather patterns, geography - along with social structures like community and occupation, educational vocabulary like study and library, and the first round of historical and cultural terms such as era and festival. Many Grade 3 characters are the second kanji in compound words whose first kanji you have known since Grade 1, so whole new categories of vocabulary become readable in one stretch. This is also where the kun-on reading distinction gets more important: children at this level have to recognise that the same character can read very differently depending on whether it stands alone (kun) or appears inside a compound (on), and they have to learn the patterns.
WaniKani coverage
No Grade 3 kanji is missing from WaniKani. Around level 22 the set is broadly at Guru I or higher.
To see exactly which of the 200 Grade 3 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 200 Grade 3 kanji
See your personal coverage
The grid above is the same for every visitor. To see how many of the 200 Grade 3 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.