Top 2000 Kanji

This page was originally created by Paul Battley in 2003 and was at http://po-ru.com/projects/kanji-project/list/. (See note at the bottom of the page.) The only changes I made were (1) adding this message, (2) changing the BASE TARGET to open links in a new window, (3) updating the links to Jim Breen's pages, and (4) inserting my "header navigation" so people can get back to my website.

This list was produced by scanning over a million kanji on thousands of Japanese web pages and ranking them according to the number of times they were seen. In total, over 3200 distinct characters were encountered. However, in order to eliminate anomalous entries at the lower end of the frequency scale, the list was arbitrarily truncated at 2000 entries.

Each kanji character on this page is linked to its entry in WWWJDIC, an online Japanese dictionary that provides more information about the character and words that use it.

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This information is copyright Paul Battley 2003.

You may freely copy and republish it for any purpose related to the study of Japanese or of kanji characters.

Kanji information links go to WWWJDIC at Monash University (copyright information).