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
  tooth, cog
  suffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter, scowl
  blood
  lightly, trifling, unimportant
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
2
  quick, fast
  ward, district
  vis-a-vis, opposite, even, equal, versus, anti-, compare
  commence, begin
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
3
  nose, snout
  return, answer, fade, repay
  mask, face, features, surface
  someone, person
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
4
  relax, cheap, low, quiet, rested, contented, peaceful
  bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
  true, reality, Buddhist sect
  both, old Japanese coin, counter for vehicles, two
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
5
  beauty, beautiful
  heavy, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
  clothing, admit, obey, discharge
  idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
6
  double, twice, times, fold
  old boy, name-suffix
  extinguish, blow out, turn off, neutralize, cancel
  sake, alcohol
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
7
  possess, have, exist, happen, occur, approx
  root, radical, head (pimple)
  street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar sign
  leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
8
  anti-
  warm
  place
  yonder, facing, beyond, confront, defy, tend toward, approach
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
9
  suffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter, scowl
  degrees, occurrence, time, counter for occurrences
  lightly, trifling, unimportant
  tooth, cog
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
10
  flavor, taste
  vis-a-vis, opposite, even, equal, versus, anti-, compare
  commence, begin
  quick, fast


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)