For quite a while now I’ve been trying to come up with an effective way to study non-jōyō kanji (technically known as jōyōgai kanji [常用外漢字] i.e. the kanji that are NOT within the 2,136 jōyō kanji), and although I’m still nowhere near achieving this goal, I recently had an interesting idea: obtain a book written in Japanese in digital text format (of which there are plenty available for free over at Aozora – here’s the page on Aozora to download Botchan for free), copy and paste the whole thing into a text editor and then run a bunch of GREP commands to eliminate all of the jōyō kanji (here’s a complete list of them).
The book I used for this little experiment is the absolute-classic Botchan (坊っちゃん) by Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石).
According to my experiment, Botchan contains the following list of non-jōyō (常用外) kanji:
云|漱|囃|貰|翳|栗|倅|蔭|袷|靡|搦|詫|肴|畠|揃|藁|圃|孟|贔|屓|碌|肋|喧|嘩|怯|嬉|擲|鍔|蕎|饂|飩|蝦|蟇|紐|胡|怙|逢|叶|麹|甥|馴|祟|蟄|呑|喋|鬢|撫|笹|飴|楊|鞄|艀|漕|磯|傭|臥|抛|覗|嘘|繻|蝙|蝠|廻|癪|髯|狸|捺|喇|叭|遥|襯|誂|袴|蒼|瘠|茄|逞|毬|叡|叮|嬌|爺|綾|聯|坐|狼|狽|董|嵩|奢|烟|捲|逼|箆|睨|捏|馳|硯|溌|簾|煤|燻|麩|憐|楓|廓|縞|贅|壺|崗|疳|蒲|厭|竪|喰|蚤|脛|臍|蓙|叩|攫|箒|椽|溜|篦|蒙|癇|糞|唸|燭|鬨|鼠|智|慧|裔|瞼|痒|掻|鮒|毘|鯉|顋|淋|鮪|恰|竿|柏|尖|嶋|吾|錨|鯛|錘|鰹|漾|腥|槍|洒|皺|凌|煽|倚|猪|艪|縊|艫|斐|磊|靄|舳|庵|惚|仔|膏|肱|鎬|辻|褄|恬|憚|埒|瓢|纏|韋|袱|紗|蒟|蒻|琥|珀|謨|慇|懃|慚|愧|咎|烏|喙|斟|頸|滔|咄|喊|綮|剴|躁|蕩|姑|杜|耽|蛙|賑|萩|駁|嬪|妲|輿|蔓|逗|鄭|芭|蕉|襖|薩|鉾|耀|碗|緬|贋|杖|躊|躇|饒|妓|瓜|芹|踵|捩|剥|墻|螺|穿|茫|呆|豹|鱈|儲|腑|拵|奸|瘤|揉|綯|晨|伊|靠|僻|淳|樸|蒔|逑|咳|膺|燗|盃|啣|噺|踴|歪|褌|棕|梠|伍|狡|樗|傚|迂|鋒|涸|柑|袂|頬|捷|絛|枡|誅|戮|閾|幡|汐|旒|葭|簀|跛|陀|洛|掠|顛|這|頁|嗾|豎|灸|辟|舐|膿|濡|耶|鼈|儘|斯|燈|狐|恢|洩|葺|藉|之|娑|罹
(a total of 320 non-jōyō kanji)
Which of the above kanji are jinmeiyō kanji and which are hyōgai kanji?
Here’s all the jinmeiyō ones from the novel:
云|漱|貰|栗|蔭|詫|肴|畠|揃|藁|圃|孟|肋|喧|嘩|嬉|蕎|蝦|紐|胡|逢|叶|甥|馴|喋|撫|笹|楊|鞄|漕|磯|傭|臥|廻|捺|遥|袴|蒼|茄|逞|毬|叡|綾|坐|狼|董|嵩|捲|馳|硯|簾|煤|憐|楓|縞|蒲|竪|喰|溜|蒙|燭|智|慧|毘|鯉|淋|恰|竿|柏|尖|嶋|吾|鯛|錘|槍|凌|猪|斐|庵|惚|仔|膏|辻|瓢|纏|紗|琥|珀|烏|杜|耽|賑|萩|輿|蔓|逗|鄭|芭|蕉|襖|薩|耀|碗|杖|瓜|芹|螺|穿|豹|儲|晨|伊|淳|蒔|盃|伍|迂|鋒|柑|捷|幡|汐|陀|洛|掠|這|頁|灸|濡|耶|斯|燈|恢|葺|之
※Bonus: here’s all of these broken down and listed with Japanese readings and English meanings.
(a total of 135 jinmeiyō kanji)
(note: interested in viewing all 863 jinmeiyō kanji? Here’s a complete list of them)
And here’s all the hyōgai ones from the novel:
囃|翳|倅|袷|靡|搦|贔|屓|碌|怯|擲|鍔|饂|飩|蟇|怙|麹|祟|蟄|呑|鬢|飴|艀|抛|覗|嘘|繻|蝙|蝠|癪|髯|狸|喇|叭|襯|誂|瘠|叮|嬌|爺|聯|狽|奢|烟|逼|箆|睨|捏|溌|燻|麩|廓|贅|壺|崗|疳|厭|蚤|脛|臍|蓙|叩|攫|箒|椽|篦|癇|糞|唸|鬨|鼠|裔|瞼|痒|掻|鮒|顋|鮪|錨|鰹|漾|腥|洒|皺|煽|倚|艪|縊|艫|磊|靄|舳|肱|鎬|褄|恬|憚|埒|韋|袱|蒟|蒻|謨|慇|懃|慚|愧|咎|喙|斟|頸|滔|咄|喊|綮|剴|躁|蕩|姑|蛙|駁|嬪|妲|鉾|緬|贋|躊|躇|饒|妓|踵|捩|剥|墻|茫|呆|鱈|腑|拵|奸|瘤|揉|綯|靠|僻|樸|逑|咳|膺|燗|啣|噺|踴|歪|褌|棕|梠|狡|樗|傚|涸|袂|頬|絛|枡|誅|戮|閾|旒|葭|簀|跛|顛|嗾|豎|辟|舐|膿|鼈|儘|狐|洩|藉|娑|罹
(a total of 185 hyōgai kanji)
Let me know in the comments below if anyone finds this useful!
Enjoy!
