Let's Practice Reading Kanji!
Can you read these 50 important beginner-level Japanese words with kanji?
Incorrect Answers:
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Vocabulary in the Quiz
Here are all the vocabulary words that appear in the quiz. Mouse over each kanji (or tap on mobile) to get the hiragana reading.
一 one
二 two
三 three
四 four
五 five
六 six
七 seven
八 eight
九 nine
十 ten
家 house
友達 friend
猫 cat
犬 dog
車 car
靴 shoes
傘 umbrella
食べ物 food
水 water
本 book
切符 ticket
本屋 bookstore
学生 student
先生 teacher
一日 one day
昼 noon
夜 night
朝 morning
金曜日 Friday
晴れ sunny
雨 rain
雪 snow
母 mother
父 father
お父さん dad
お母さん mom
青い blue
赤い red
緑 green
黄色 yellow
黒 black
白 white
会社 company
靴下 socks
机 desk
電話 phone
英語 English
日本語 Japanese
学校 school
Thankyou very much. I have previously written and used kanji in sentences as I know hiragana and katakana (but needed kanji for school TT) except I never got far when I tried to learn it in class. I thought I would not be able to learn however this quiz has given me new found inspiration to try harder to learn kanji as I got 42 out of 47!? I can not believe I actually know this many kanji and it shows me that my previous work did actually pay off somewhat 🙂 so Thankyou Very Much!
Glad it helped! Language learning usually occurs when you don’t realize it. It’s hard to see the tiny steps you make every day but it is real progress. Keep at it!
Thank you from the kanji it help me to do at school and again thank you
I likes very much quiz. Do it more !!!
I really enjoyed this quiz! Only missed one!
Awesome job! I’ll do more in the near future.
That’s so cool
Thanks for the review! Displaying the kanji the mistakes is really helpfull 🙂
Great! Glad you liked it. I’ll do more of these soon.
Revision was most enjoyable
Glad you liked it. Thanks!
I would prefer if the kanji did not have English included
Thanks. I just removed it. Since the list is below the quiz, people can look it up that way.
Hi, thanks for the quiz!
In the question for school, the word in question is written in hiragana instead of kanji.
Yikes! How did I miss that. I guess 3.5 hours staring at the screen can lead to careless mistakes. 🙂 Let me know if you find anything else. It’s fixed now.
Thank you! Very useful quiz!
In the question about “house” there is no answer. 「いえ」 isn’t in any option. There is two 「うち」。
Good eye! うち is a reading for 家 but not as common as いえ as you mentioned. I fixed it. Now the correct answer is 「いえ」 and there is no うち. 🙂 Let me know if you spot anything else or have other ideas. Now that I have the code for this, I can create other similar quizzes.