Edit: I made a simple web/tool where you check what kanji will be locked / unlocked:
https://onusai.github.io/wanikani-tools/kanji_levelup.html
Original Post
I want to pre-study half of the next level’s kanji before I level up. But I don’t know which kanji will be unlocked first. Is there any way to determine which kanij will be unlocked immediately upon leveling up?
First, I tried looking at the WaniKani / Kanji page, but the order seems to be random
Next, I looked in the API docs and found that each subject (kanji) has a lesson_position property. I thought this had to be what determines the order in which kanji are unlocked, but as it turns out, its not. I wrote a python script that lists the kanji with its associated lesson_position
<code> python script
# script to display kanji lesson order
# edit these variables
API_KEY = "paste here"
LEVEL = 8
import requests
# fetches data
url = f"https://api.wanikani.com/v2/subjects?levels={LEVEL}&types=kanji"
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + API_KEY}
resp = requests.get(url=url, headers=headers)
json_data = resp.json()
for data in json_data["data"]:
data = data["data"]
print(data["characters"], data["lesson_position"])
note: it starts at 14 because there are 13 radicals in this level prior to the kanji
This is what I really have unlocked right now. Notice how the medicine kanji 医 is still locked for me, but its showing up as 5th in the lesson_position . This makes no sense…
