There are total of 440 Kanji for Grade-1 to Grade-3.
The Kanji lists are provided in a table that contains Kanji and its OnYomi, KunYomi and Meaning. OnYomi and KunYomi represents reading of a Kanji. In most of the cases, if a Kanji is used alone, then the KunYomi reading is used and if that Kanji is combined with another Kanji then OnYomi reading is used.
I have divided these Kanji into different groups.
This helped me learn faster and repeated revision in intervals helped retain the knowledge.
Logical Grouping of Kanji:
I have formed the below links with each link opens up a HTML page having a small set of Grade-1 to Grade-3 Japanese School grade Kanji that have something in common. Master these Kanjis by learning and memorizing each small groups.
| Logical Grouping of Kanji | Total Kanji |
|---|---|
| all | 440 |
| similar kanji | 134 |
| numbers | 25 |
| prefix-suffix | 47 |
| opposites | 74 |
| related-words | 16 |
| god | 7 |
| work | 27 |
| nature | 62 |
| week | 9 |
| time-period | 17 |
| directions | 26 |
| communicate | 2 |
| quality | 1 |
| people | 19 |
| family | 12 |
| body-parts | 20 |
| music | 9 |
| sense-feeling | 12 |
| education | 47 |
| place | 27 |
| city-country-governmnent | 14 |
| war | 5 |
| colors | 7 |
| animals | 7 |
| food | 18 |
| travel | 28 |
| shopping | 8 |
| money-matters | 4 |
| shape-size | 17 |
| others | 14 |