# Have You Ever Wondered **URL:** \ **Category:** Kanji\ **Created:** [March 18, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664 "2019-03-18T07:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newyorkaru](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/newyorkaru/32/235289_2.png) [@newyorkaru](https://community.wanikani.com/u/newyorkaru)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/1 "2019-03-18T07:13:07Z")
how many possible On’yomi there are? Do you feel like there are an endless number of on’yomi for these pesky Kanji? Well I did some checking, cross-referencing and then re-checking 😊 Eventually I came up with this list of 331 possible on’yomi. Of course, let me know if there are any mistakes you find. (Just to be clear, I only checked with the 2136 jouyou Kanji. More obscure Kanji may have more obscure on’yomi.) I hope this helps! ![Onyomi](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/3/5/354a4ee6c2ff09043c1f460b620328d4597c6138.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![aeolianaether](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@aeolianaether](https://community.wanikani.com/u/aeolianaether)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/2 "2019-03-18T07:19:22Z")
And now I’m curious about the frequency of said onyomi… ---
**Author:** ![abdullahalt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/abdullahalt/32/195998_2.png) [@abdullahalt](https://community.wanikani.com/u/abdullahalt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/3 "2019-03-18T07:27:44Z")
I wondered about that a lot! I started to use a previously learned kanji as a mnemonic for a new kanji with the same reading and it worked wonders for me. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/4 "2019-03-18T07:31:28Z")
Here’s a chart of onyomi sorted by how many kanji have that reading. [http://funbit.info/kanji/readings/on\_table\_by\_freq.html](http://funbit.info/kanji/readings/on_table_by_freq.html) ---
**Author:** ![abdullahalt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/abdullahalt/32/195998_2.png) [@abdullahalt](https://community.wanikani.com/u/abdullahalt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:53am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/5 "2019-03-18T07:53:11Z")
Do you know what the different colors mean? ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/6 "2019-03-18T07:56:48Z")
School year in which the kanji is learnt - there’s a key down the bottom. Green = first grade, red = high school. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/7 "2019-03-18T08:00:06Z")
It basically separates the jouyou kanji (which is all of them) into the kyouiku kanji (elementary school kanji, everything but red) and everything else (red). Within elementary they are also broken down by grade. ---
**Author:** ![Okanekure](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/okanekure/32/188902_2.png) [@Okanekure](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Okanekure)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/8 "2019-03-19T04:01:57Z")
No this does not help at all. It makes learning Japanese Kanji seem like an even more insurmountable task. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/1/3/13641fb6aae8bd8e73283acbed55dcb94e2b03b6.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Yalmar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/yalmar/32/223931_2.png) [@Yalmar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Yalmar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/9 "2019-03-19T08:13:18Z")
> [@abdullahalt](#): > > I started to use a previously learned kanji as a mnemonic for a new kanji with the same reading and it worked wonders for me. I also do that for vocab. I create mnemonics that contains a little story linking kanji and vocab with the same or similar pronunciation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yalmar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/yalmar/32/223931_2.png) [@Yalmar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Yalmar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/10 "2019-03-19T08:26:26Z")
I wonder whether Japanese have tongue-twisters that link kanji with the same or similar reading, something like: > Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers > A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked > If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers > Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? ---
**Author:** ![Liras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/liras/32/41190_2.png) [@Liras](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Liras)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/11 "2019-03-19T09:04:23Z")
You’re already level 35, you’re more than half way there, so don’t talk like that! Matter of fact, you’ve been trough the worst part already. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Belthazar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/belthazar/32/4469_2.png) [@Belthazar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Belthazar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/12 "2019-03-19T09:13:22Z")
> [@Yalmar](#): > > I wonder whether Japanese have tongue-twisters that link kanji with the same or similar reading, something like: 貴社の記者は汽車で帰社した。 > [@Liras](#): > > You’re already level 35, you’re more than half way there, so don’t talk like that! Whoa-oh, livin’ on a prayer! ---
**Author:** ![Yalmar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/yalmar/32/223931_2.png) [@Yalmar](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Yalmar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/13 "2019-03-19T09:15:00Z")
> [@Belthazar](#): > > 貴社の記者は汽車で帰社した。 Oh that’s fun! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/have-you-ever-wondered/35664/14 "2020-03-18T09:29:01Z")
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