JLPT N3 Kanji List

About the N3 kanji

The N3 level has 370 kanji in this list, laid out in 4 consecutive groups of up to 100 cards that follow the order of the list, not stroke count or topic. Every N3 card shows the on'yomi and kun'yomi readings and the meaning in English. Here are a few of the first kanji on the list: 政 (politics), 議 (deliberation), 民 (people), 連 (take along), 対 (opposite).

N3 is the intermediate stretch, and the first level where the list grows long. Kanji for more abstract vocabulary become common, with readings that change from word to word, so moving through it group by group works better than reading straight through.

A note on N3: the JLPT has not published official kanji lists since 2010, so level lists are usually community-compiled and vary from one source to another. This list may not match others, so if you are preparing for the exam, cross-check it against your own materials and treat it as a study aid, not an official list.