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New Jōyō Kanji

I’m not the biggest believer in the usefulness of the Jōyō kanji list. It’s really a minimum baseline for grade school kanji education and little else. It’s useful enough for students of Japanese to study from, but there are many non-Jōyō kanji that any student needs to learn to be literate, and quite a few Jōyō kanji that can be put off until later.

That said, it’s noteworthy that the list is about to have 196 new characters added, in addition to the 11 characters added in 2008. The new characters consist of the following:

挨 曖 宛 嵐 畏 萎 椅 彙 茨 咽 淫 唄 鬱 怨 媛 艶 旺 岡 臆 俺 苛 牙 瓦 楷 潰 諧 崖 蓋 骸 柿 顎 葛 釜 鎌 韓 玩 伎 亀 毀 畿 臼 嗅 巾 僅 錦 惧 串 窟 熊 詣 憬 稽 隙 桁 拳 鍵 舷 股 虎 錮 勾 梗 喉 乞 傲 駒 頃 痕 沙 挫 采 塞 埼 柵 刹 拶 斬 恣 摯 餌 鹿 叱《𠮟》 嫉 腫 呪 袖 羞 蹴 憧 拭 尻 芯 腎 須 裾 凄 醒 脊 戚 煎 羨 腺 詮 箋 膳 狙 遡 曽 爽 痩 踪 捉 遜 汰 唾 堆 戴 誰 旦 綻 緻 酎 貼 嘲 捗 椎 爪 鶴 諦 溺 填《塡》 妬 賭 藤 瞳 栃 頓 貪 丼 那 奈 梨 謎 鍋 匂 虹 捻 罵 剥《剝》 箸 氾 汎 阪 斑 眉 膝 肘 訃 阜 蔽 餅 璧 蔑 哺 蜂 貌 頬《頰》 睦 勃 昧 枕 蜜 冥 麺 冶 弥 闇 喩 湧 妖 瘍 沃 拉 辣 藍 璃 慄 侶 瞭 瑠 呂 賂 弄 籠 麓 脇

The most thorough and up-to-date information on the daily-use kanji list can be found at the Japanese Wikipedia.