Jinmeiyō Kanji Puns

Jisho will mark a kanji as either Jōyō or Jinmeiyō, such as:

面 : (めん) Mask -> Jōyō

兎 : (うさぎ) Rabbit -> Jinmeiyō

However, Kanji that are neither Jōyō or Jinmeiyō do not appear to have a name tagged, examples:

姦 : (かん) Wicked

葱 : (ねぎ) Welsh Onion

癌 : (がん) Cancer

As level 1 of the 漢字検定 (Kanji Kentei) draws from over 6,000 Kanji, test takers will be seeking Kanji from outside of these lists, so how would they go about finding these "unlisted" Kanji?

My kanji dictionary app (Kanji Study) tells me 賑やか is N5 vocabulary, so I would expect that to be a basic and common word. At the same time, according to Wiktionary, 賑 is a jinmeiyō kanji and, as far as I understand, therefore not taught at school.

Can anyone help me make sense of that?

At first I thought that maybe that's an uncommon way to write it, but my app doesn't say "usually kana only", and I can find a lot of hits on Google where it's written that way.

So, does that mean that there are a lot of kanji that are common but not part of the jōyō kanji? How do you find them? Would those usually be jinmeiyō kanji? Are there also common kanji that aren't in either list?

When I learn a new kanji I always learn the parts it consists of first.

I now came across 顔, which includes 頁, which is a Jinmeiyō Kanji. Now, although I'm only at ~250 kanji I want to stick to my rule and now learn 頁 before 顔.

My question is: what's the best way to deal with it? I searched for names using 頁 on tangorin, which gave me "Fukusako" and "Fukuma". Trying to verify this I did some searching on Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, etc. in the hope to find a Japanese person whose name includes 頁 and where it is read "Fukusako" or "Fukuma" but failed to find anything. I intended to simply add one or two sample names to my Anki deck.

Is 頁 just a super rare Jinmeiyō Kanji? Or are there any better sources to find Japanese names using a given kanji? Or should I handle Jinmeiyō Kanji completely different? I'm open to suggestions.

The jinmeiyō kanji consist of 863 kanji, so it can’t consist of all of the secondary school kanji.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678