# How does the kanji progression bar work?

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**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-does-the-kanji-progression-bar-work/64177 "2023-12-20T10:43:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![maryqqqty](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@maryqqqty](https://community.wanikani.com/u/maryqqqty)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-does-the-kanji-progression-bar-work/64177/1 "2023-12-20T10:43:56Z")

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Hi! Level 5 beginner here

I thought the standard for “passing” a kanji is by leveling it up to the guru stage, but why does my dashboard show 38/40 kanji when I haven’t guru’ed 6 of them?

So how does the progression bar count “passing” a kanji?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/3/5/f/35fb4609ef3e7e9bf4689b37a79c520d3816124a.png)

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**Author:** ![ekg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ekg/32/680984_2.png) [@ekg](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ekg)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-does-the-kanji-progression-bar-work/64177/2 "2023-12-20T10:49:51Z")

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> [@maryqqqty](#):
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> I thought the standard for “passing” a kanji is by leveling it up to the guru stage, but why does my dashboard show 38/40 kanji when I haven’t guru’ed 6 of them?

You don’t need 100% of all kanji to level up, just 90% on each level. So the count here is for the number of kanji left until level up. 🙂

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-does-the-kanji-progression-bar-work/64177/3 "2023-12-20T10:51:19Z")

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Thank you so much!!

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**Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-does-the-kanji-progression-bar-work/64177/4 "2024-12-19T10:52:19Z")

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