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Interesting study case for Ruffians interested in picking up nihongo. The word is normally at the end of 30k most used which makes it somewhat common but within 10k most used in fiction (which means it's super common for us as M&A enjoyers) but it's a three kanji jukugo which uses two JLPT N1 level kanji. Levels are progressively from easiest N5, N4, N3, N2, N1 - these five constitute ~2136 jouyou kanji which are "the ones which appear in newspapers". Jinmeiyou are a set of ~863 extra kanji which can be officially used in names and will be worth knowing eventually. There's a bunch of other kanji which are rarely used nowadays but can show up in historical texts or some difficult chuuni games.
This really shows how many kanji are actually used a lot and that one shouldn't trouble themselves with worrying about JLPT Nx level of kanji. Simply learn the words as you encounter them.
