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
待
  tool, utensil, means, possess, ingredients, counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture
  fall, drop, come down
  wait, depend on
  leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
2
究
  pour, irrigate, shed (tears), flow into, concentrate on, notes, comment, annotate
  research, study
  vis-a-vis, opposite, even, equal, versus, anti-, compare
  advance, proceed, progress, promote
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
3
命
  fate, command, decree, destiny, life, appoint
  beforehand, previous, myself, I
  bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
  deep, heighten, intensify, strengthen
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
4
速
  farm, field, garden, one's specialty, (kokuji)
  discharge, departure, publish, emit, start from, disclose
  quick, fast
  whole, entire, all, complete, fulfill
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
5
漢
  warm
  blessing, fortune, luck, wealth
  Sino-, China
  emotion, feeling, sensation
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
6
柱
  generation, world, society, public
  box, chest, case, bin, railway car
  question, ask, problem
  pillar, post, cylinder, support
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
7
題
  juvenile, child
  finger, point to, indicate, put into, play (chess), measure (ruler)
  topic, subject
  strike, hit, knock, pound, dozen
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
8
勉
  medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit
  exertion
  path, route, road, distance
  lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
9
葉
  fall, drop, come down
  jail cell, grieve, sad, deplore, regret
  leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
  tool, utensil, means, possess, ingredients, counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
10
対
  warehouse, storehouse
  vis-a-vis, opposite, even, equal, versus, anti-, compare
  advance, proceed, progress, promote
  pour, irrigate, shed (tears), flow into, concentrate on, notes, comment, annotate


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)