Breaking out of 6th Grade Kanji

Japanese school children first learn hiragana and katakana, then from grades one to nine they are expected to learn 2,136, known as the jouyou kanji - characters required for the level of fluency necessary to read newspapers and literature in Japanese.

In this book, 180 Kanji for 6th grade elementary school are provided. Each Kanji is followed by the stroke order, On and kun reading (the on yomi or Chinese readings are in upper case while kun yomi or Japanese readings are in lower case), the pronunciation in Romaji, meaning in English. Useful compounds also listed for each Kanji and they are laid out in a readable and intuitive manner.