Let's Practice Hiragana!
Once you've memorized all the kana, you need to practice reading (a lot). Use this page to practice reading words. Read the hiragana out loud first and then choose the correct romanized option. Can you read these 50 important Japanese words?
Need a review? Click here for our free hiragana chart or click here to zoom to our hiragana lesson page.
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. Even though you are just finishing learning hiragana, make an effort to remember the kanji as you learn words.
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
Want more?
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It's called Beri- Beri- Shoshinsha. It not only covers the total basics (kana, grammar, and essential vocabulary), but also includes dozens of short, curated stories to help you improve your reading, understanding, and vocabulary.
The vocabulary list shown above: When hovering over each kanji, the red hiragana is very small and doesn’t always show up correctly. Could its size be increased?
Yes, you can hit control + (or Command + on a Mac) to increase the window size. Which furigana is incorrect? Thanks!
If you click on your correct answer multiple times before it goes to the next question, it will automatically make the proceeding question correct for however many times you clicked it.
You found the hidden cheat code! 🙂 When I have time, I’ll try to fix that. In the meantime, just click once. 🙂
we’ve got 50 out of 49😭😭😭😭😭
でも、すごい！ But that’s great. 🙂 Good job!
I’ve got 49/49 without hassle, need more practice to master
Great! Reading–that’s the key. Reading will make your kana and kanji recognition faster as well as help you gain vocabulary and understanding of Japanese sentence structure. がんばってください！
I’ve got 49/49 without hassle, need more practice to master
I got 49/49! Three were misclicks but it ended up being right, I guess.
Great job! (Especially on those three misclicks)
Very Nice
did it 49/49
Great job!
49/49
thanks
おめでとうございます！
Quiz Completed!
Your score: 48 out of 49
Congratulations! You completed the quiz. You missed 1 out of 49 questions.
Great job!
45/49 THANK YOU!!
This was fun – and gave excellent feedback. It’s the first time I’ve been tested this way. I’ve only learn hiragana so much work harder next time.
Glad to hear you liked it. I’ll do another one with different words soon!
THis was a lot of fun — I have studied sentences and their translations but have never been tested on vocabulary. I am slow as molassas however faired a lot better (46 out of 49) than I expected!!! Again this exercise was fun for me.
Excellent job! I made the katakana quiz a lot harder. The romaji is much more tricky. Check it out: https://www.thejapanesepage.com/katakana-practice-quiz/
That was fun! Thank you for sharing <3
Glad you liked it! I should have a Katakana one done today. I’ll email everyone about it or you can look for it linked on the front page in a few hours.
Thank you for this quiz. It was really helpful to practice 🙂 Future quizzes will be most welcomed!
Thanks! I’m planning one on katakana this Sunday. I’ll email everyone in the newsletter about it when ready.
That was fun! Do you have one for カタカナ ? Katakana is much harder for me. I’m quite slow in reading it compared to ひらがな。
Great idea! I’ll work on that after finishing some editing on our History books (this week’s project).
Cool stuff 👍
Thanks for going through it. Practice makes perfect!
Very enjoyable and fairly quick. A nice break in the day. 🙂
Awesome! Glad you liked it. Thanks for the comment.