A sortable and filterable table covering the Japanese kanji contained in The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course and Remembering the Kanji (Book 1), 6th edition.
Uses pyftsubset
from fonttools to create a subset version of Source Han Serif (GitHub) that only has the kanji used on the page.
# brotli for woff2
pip install fonttools brotli
# If the brotli installation runs into problems on Windows, e.g. due to
# Visual C++ build tools, a precompiled version can be installed from
# https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#brotli
pip install ./Brotli‑1.0.7‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl
Build the font with npm run subset-font
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- The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course Memrise course for order, with a few double checked against the book.
- “All 2200 Kanji from Heisig's Remembering the Kanji 6th edition” Reddit post for order, with a few double checked against entries on Jisho.
- JLPT Kanji from Jonathan Waller's JLPT Resources for JLPT level. Since there is no official JLPT kanji list, this is more of an estimation.
- List of jōyō kanji Wikipedia page for Japanese school grade: “The ‘Grade’ column specifies the grade in which the kanji is taught in Elementary schools in Japan. Grade ’S’ means that it is taught in secondary school.” (Other useful Wikipedia pages are Kyōiku kanji and Jinmeiyō kanji.)
- List of kanji by stroke count Wikipedia page for stroke count, with the count for kanji not on that page complemented from KANJIDIC via Yomichan.
- Kanji frequency list ver. 1.3 by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (PDF), extracted with Tabula.
- Kanji usage frequency data by scriptin.