Modern Japanese written language consists of two phonetic scripts and one logographic script. The phonetic scripts are called hiragana and katakana. The logographic script is called kanji. Collectively, hiragana and katakana are known as the kana. Students in Japan learn the kana very early in primary school. The Japanese ministry of education requires primary and secondary schools to teach at least a subset of kanji, called the jouyou kanji, to students through the end of high school. There are 2,136 jouyou kanji. The jouyou kanji are further split into two groups. The first is called the kyouiku kanji. There are 1,026 kyouiku kanji, and these are taught in grades 1-6 (elementary school). The remaining kanji, known in Japan as the middle-school-high-school kanji (中学・高校漢字), are taught throughout middle and high school.
We list all jouyou kanji by grade with one page per grade for grades 1-6. The ministry of education does not specify grades for the rest of the jouyou kanji, so we create our own grouping for presentation's sake. We split the kanji taught in secondary school into 10 groups of 111 kanji each.
Primary school kanji:
Secondary school kanji: