Let's Practice Reading Kanji!
Can you read these 50 important beginner-level Japanese words with kanji?
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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
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.
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.