# How many Counters does WaniKani teach?

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**Category:** WaniKani\
**Created:** [April 5, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990 "2019-04-05T03:23:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Izabelle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/izabelle/32/756257_2.png) [@Izabelle](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Izabelle)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/1 "2019-04-05T03:23:44Z")

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How many different Counters does WaniKani teach over the sixty levels? Thank you.

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**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:** [April 5, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/2 "2019-04-05T03:29:23Z")

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A quick search of “counter” on the dashboard reveals about a dozen or more, depending on what you include maybe. There might be some that are technically counters, but for some reason don’t have the word counter in the item meaning.

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**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:** [April 5, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/3 "2019-04-05T03:49:05Z")

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> [@Leebo](#):
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> There might be some that are technically counters, but for some reason don’t have the word counter in the item meaning.

There’s several kanji that function as counters as well as something else, but WaniKani only covers the “something else”. Like 本 (ほん), the counter for long, thin things, but which WaniKani only teaches as “book”. Or 頭 (とう), the counter for large animals, but which WaniKani only teaches as あたま meaning “head”.

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**Author:** ![tmninja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tmninja/32/630078_2.png) [@tmninja](https://community.wanikani.com/u/tmninja)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/4 "2019-04-05T04:18:24Z")

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This isn’t really answering the question about counters that are taught in _WaniKani_ but if you were just wondering about counters in general:

> **[350 Japanese Counters Grouped by Usefulness](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-counters-list/)**
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> We've put together a list of 350 Japanese counters grouped by usefulness. That way, you can learn the counters that get used most often.

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**Author:** ![Izabelle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/izabelle/32/756257_2.png) [@Izabelle](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Izabelle)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/5 "2019-04-05T04:34:26Z")

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Thank you, I was hoping the counters would be included so I wouldn’t have to learn them on my Memrise account. Maybe I’ll just wait and see what I’m missing later on and fill in the gaps.

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**Author:** ![Izabelle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/izabelle/32/756257_2.png) [@Izabelle](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Izabelle)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/6 "2019-04-05T04:35:46Z")

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thank you, I missed that search bar 🙂

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-many-counters-does-wanikani-teach/35990/7 "2020-04-04T04:39:00Z")

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