Joyo Grade 6 kanji
181 kanji - the full Grade 6 set from the Ministry of Education's Joyo list.
The last 181 characters of the kyoiku (educational) set arrive in Grade 6, completing the 1,026-kanji baseline Japanese children carry into junior high school. This is the final year of elementary kanji.
Grade 6 rounds out the elementary education with abstract and formal vocabulary. Justice and law contribute kanji like court and judge, governance adds treaty and constitution, and the historical and cultural layer brings era, ancestor, and religion, along with more advanced verbs of intellectual action such as recognise and define. The characters are picked partly to close gaps in the syllabus: many Grade 6 kanji are the rarer member of a kun-on pair where the more common reading was taught in an earlier grade. The set also includes a handful of kanji that show up almost exclusively in fixed phrases or named entities - historical eras, religious traditions - so the practical reading payoff is broader than the character count suggests. Completing Grade 6 means a learner has every kanji the Ministry expects an elementary graduate to know.
WaniKani coverage
Every Grade 6 kanji appears in WaniKani, and the set is effectively at Guru I or higher by around level 45.
To see exactly which of the 181 Grade 6 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 181 Grade 6 kanji
See your personal coverage
The grid above is the same for every visitor. To see how many of the 181 Grade 6 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.