Ultra Handy Kanji Tester - Grade 3

Test your knowledge of the Kanji characters that Japanese children learn in grade 3 of elementary school
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For each of the following 10 randomly selected Grade 3 Kanji, select the correct English meanings from the multiple choice answers.

Handy hint Many Kanji are derived from pictures of the things which they represent. Allegedly.

 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
1
湯
  strike, hit, knock, pound, dozen
  agriculture, farmers
  hot water, bath, hot spring
  badge, chapter, composition, poem, design
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
2
宮
  research, study
  Shinto shrine, constellations, palace, princess
  discharge, departure, publish, emit, start from, disclose
  beauty, beautiful
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
3
動
  move, motion, change, confusion, shift, shake
  class, rank, grade
  gather, meet, congregate, swarm, flock
  double, twice, times, fold
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
4
波
  metropolis, capital
  throw, discard, abandon, launch into, join, invest in, hurl, give up, sell at a loss
  waves, billows, Poland
  heavy, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
5
箱
  station
  writing brush, writing, painting brush, handwriting
  box, chest, case, bin, railway car
  sunshine, yang principle, positive, male, heaven, daytime
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
6
第
  style, ceremony, rite, function, method, system, form, expression
  dish, a helping, plate
  have the honor to, sign of the monkey, 3-5PM, ninth sign of Chinese zodiac
  No., residence
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
7
局
  change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
  committee, entrust to, leave to, devote, discard
  bureau, board, office, affair, conclusion, court lady, lady-in-waiting, her apartment
  employee, member, number, the one in charge
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
8
君
  street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar sign
  old boy, name-suffix
  nose, snout
  courtyard, garden, yard
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
9
章
  agriculture, farmers
  play
  badge, chapter, composition, poem, design
  strike, hit, knock, pound, dozen
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
10
発
  tribe, family
  discharge, departure, publish, emit, start from, disclose
  beauty, beautiful
  research, study


The Kanji Data used in these tests is provided courtesy of a download from the KANJIDIC/KANJD212 Project - thanks dudes! The grade levels are as specified by the Japanese Ministry of Education for kanji that are to be taught in elementary school (according to the notes on the Kanjidic website)