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
医
  idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking
  bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong
  doctor, medicine
  center, middle
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
2
始
  practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine
  commence, begin
  copy, be photographed, describe
  question, ask, problem
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
3
度
  degrees, occurrence, time, counter for occurrences
  guard, protect, defend, obey
  sunshine, yang principle, positive, male, heaven, daytime
  committee, entrust to, leave to, devote, discard
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
4
神
  pour, irrigate, shed (tears), flow into, concentrate on, notes, comment, annotate
  lightly, trifling, unimportant
  gods, mind, soul
  slope, incline, hill
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
5
放
  exertion
  notebook, account book, album
  set free, release, fire, shoot, emit, banish, liberate
  matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
6
指
  salute, bow, ceremony, thanks, remuneration
  anti-
  ward, district
  finger, point to, indicate, put into, play (chess), measure (ruler)
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
7
葉
  make a deal, selling, dealing in, merchant
  Shinto shrine, constellations, palace, princess
  leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
  attend, doing, official, serve
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
8
君
  tune, tone, meter, key (music), writing style, prepare, exorcise, investigate
  old boy, name-suffix
  world
  dwell, reside, live, inhabit
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
9
央
  bad, vice, rascal, false, evil, wrong
  breath, respiration, son, interest (on money)
  center, middle
  idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
10
写
  decide, fix, agree upon, appoint
  copy, be photographed, describe
  question, ask, problem
  practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine


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)