Ultra Handy Kanji Tester - Grade 4

Test your knowledge of the Kanji characters that Japanese children learn in grade 4 of elementary school
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For each of the following 10 randomly selected Grade 4 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
  harden, set, clot, curdle
  request, want, wish for, require, demand
  celebrate, congratulate
  old man, old age, grow old
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
2
  emulate, compete with, bid, sell at auction, bout, contest, race
  prize, reward, praise
  borrow, rent
  vein, pulse, hope
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
3
  public chamber, hall
  lose, error, fault, disadvantage, loss
  ballot, label, ticket, sign
  mechanism, opportunity, occasion, machine, airplane
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
4
  salary, wage, gift, allow, grant, bestow on
  contraption, fetter, machine, instrument
  intestines, guts, bowels, viscera
  lack, gap, fail
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
5
  army, force, troops, war, battle
  heat, temperature, fever, mania, passion
  sort, kind, variety, class, genus
  resign, word, term, expression
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
6
  halt, stopping
  reign, be at peace, calm down, subdue, quell, govt, cure, heal, rule, conserve
  bureaucrat, the government
  harm, injury
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
7
  species, kind, class, variety, seed
  bake, burning
  fishing, fishery
  distinction, difference, variation, discrepancy, margin, balance
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
8
  history, chronicle
  retainer, subject
  garment, clothes, dressing
  printing, print
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
9
  request, want, wish for, require, demand
  England, English
  old man, old age, grow old
  harden, set, clot, curdle
 Japanese KanjiSelect English Meaning
10
  expense, cost, spend, consume, waste
  borrow, rent
  vein, pulse, hope
  emulate, compete with, bid, sell at auction, bout, contest, race


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)