How many kanji are in the Kanji Kentei level pre-1?


According to
[Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%E8%83%BD%E5%8A%9B%E6%A4%9C%E5%AE%9A)
there are exactly 2994 kanji in the level pre-1 (準1級) of the Kanji Kentei
(漢字検定) and this number also pops up frequently in other places so I don't
think it's incorrect. But these 2994 kanji apparently consist of all kanji in
level 1 of JIS X 0208 (JIS第一水準) plus the Jouyou kanji (常用漢字) that are not
contained in the former.

The number of kanji in level 1 of JIS X 0208 is 2965
([here](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Japanese_kanji_by_JIS_X_0208_kuten_code)
is the full list) and there are as far as I can see 30 kanji that are Jouyou
kanji and not in level 1 of JIS X 0208, namely

曖彙鬱楷諧毀嗅惧憬錮傲刹恣摯羞箋踪緻嘲貪丼訃璧哺喩瘍拉辣慄籠

These numbers also line up with the numbers in [this
thread](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/88856/what-is-the-
relationship-between-the-jinmeiy%C5%8Dk%C3%A1nji-j%C5%8Dy%C5%8Dk%C3%A1nji-and-
level-1-of-jis).

This would suggest that there are 2995 kanji in level pre-1. But I have not
seen this number come up anywhere. So which kanji is actually not in level
pre-1? Or are there really 2995 kanji in level pre-1 instead of 2994?

There's also this line "2994字の漢字は、JIS第一水準を目安とする。
1級同様、一般的には用いない漢字や読みが多く出題されるが、1級よりは比較的使用頻度の高いものが多い。
2010年11月に常用漢字が196字増え、その全てが2級配当漢字となっているが、このうち168字は元準1級配当漢字である" from the
aforementioned [Wikipedia page of the Kanji
Kentei](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%E8%83%BD%E5%8A%9B%E6%A4%9C%E5%AE%9A).
Which, if I understand correctly, states that there are 2994 in level pre-1
and in 2010 when the Jouyou kanji list was updated by adding 196 new kanji
([here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji) is a list), these
196 were also added to level 2 of the Kanji Kentei. So that they automatically
got added to level pre-1 as well, but 168 of them were already in level pre-1.

Assuming that before 2010 the level pre-1 kanji were exactly the same as level
1 of JIS X 0208 that would mean that the number of kanji in level pre-1 after
2010 is 2993. So those numbers don't add up either. I think the 168 is wrong
it should be 166 with the remaining 30 being the kanji I mentioned earlier.

So is it 2994? And if so what kanji am I adding that's not actually in there?




can't give you the exact number, but here are two options: you can count the
number of characters >[here](https://kanji.jitenon.jp/cat/kyu01j.html)< (i
would more or less trust this source)

but to be absolutely sure, i guess you would need to count them in the "漢検要覧
1/準1級"

there is also a question of whether old or alternative shapes should be
considered as separate kanji from the standard forms

