Abstract
This paper reports on a kanji syllabus for graduate school students in science and engineering, which contains 700 kanji classified into 7 levels. Most of the graduate students, who have no kanji background, have problems with learning kanji after completing an elementary Japanese course. It is because they have not acquired sufficient vocabulary necessary to learn kanji. We developed a syllabus for those who have limited vocabulary to learn kanji. The syllabus covers 89% of the kanji in the former "JLPT level 3" syllabus and 83.1% of the high appearance frequency kanji in the science and engineering fields.
