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
研
  practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine
  possess, have, exist, happen, occur, approx
  polish, study of, sharpen
  open, unfold, unseal
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
2
代
  medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit
  substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, generation, charge, rate, fee
  gather, meet, congregate, swarm, flock
  place
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
3
打
  strike, hit, knock, pound, dozen
  distribute, spouse, exile, rationing
  whole, entire, all, complete, fulfill
  bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
4
軽
  anti-
  ride, power, multiplication, record, counter for vehicles, board, mount, join
  lightly, trifling, unimportant
  pillar, post, cylinder, support
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
5
短
  defeat, negative, -, minus, bear, owe, assume a responsibility
  second (1/60 minute)
  short, brevity, fault, defect, weak point
  sideways, side, horizontal, width, woof
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
6
鉄
  nickname, number, item, title, pseudonym, name, call
  ascend, climb up
  determine, fix, establish, decide
  iron
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
7
漢
  flavor, taste
  concept, think, idea, thought
  Sino-, China
  guest, visitor, customer, client
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
8
荷
  emotion, feeling, sensation
  baggage, shoulder-pole load, bear (a burden), shoulder (a gun), load, cargo, freight
  take, fetch, take up
  tribe, family
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
9
開
  possess, have, exist, happen, occur, approx
  waves, billows, Poland
  open, unfold, unseal
  practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
10
集
  clothing, admit, obey, discharge
  gather, meet, congregate, swarm, flock
  place
  medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit


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)