Kanji - Quiz

1. How many characters are in the kyōiku kanji list?

A) 2,999
B) 1,026
C) 863
D) 2,136

2. Which government body maintains the kyōiku kanji list?

A) Ministry of Justice
B) Japanese Ministry of Education
C) The Cabinet Office
D) Japanese Industrial Standards committee

3. What is the primary purpose of the gakunen-betsu kanji haitōhyō?

A) To define computer character code-points
B) To establish rules for scientific terminology
C) To break down kanji by elementary school grade level
D) To list all kanji used in personal names

4. How many characters are included in the jōyō kanji list?

A) 1,850
B) 2,136
C) 6,355
D) 1,026

5. When were the jōyō kanji introduced?

A) 1952
B) 1946
C) 1981
D) 2010

6. What was the name of the list of 1,850 characters that preceded the jōyō kanji?

A) Jinmeiyō kanji
B) Hyōgai kanji
C) Tōyō kanji
D) Gakushū kanji

7. When were the tōyō kanji introduced?

A) 1946
B) 1952
C) 2017
D) 1981

8. What is the term for kanji used in personal names?

A) Jōyō kanji
B) Jinmeiyō kanji
C) Kyōiku kanji
D) Hyōgai kanji

9. What does 'hyōgai kanji' literally translate to?

A) Unlisted characters
B) General-use kanji
C) Education kanji
D) Personal-name kanji

10. How many kanji does JIS X 0208 contain?

A) 3,695
B) 1,026
C) 6,355
D) 5,801

11. Which JIS standard is considered effectively obsolete?

A) JIS X 0212
B) JIS X 0221
C) JIS X 0208
D) JIS X 0213

12. What does the term 'jōyō kanji' mean?

A) Regular-use kanji
B) General-use kanji
C) Education kanji
D) Personal-name kanji

13. How many characters were in the original jinmeiyō kanji list in 1952?

A) 1,850
B) 2,999
C) 92
D) 863

14. What is used in publishing when a character is outside the jōyō kanji category?

A) Arabic numerals
B) Shinjitai
C) Furigana
D) Latin alphabet

15. JIS X 0221:1995 is the Japanese version of which international standard?

A) ISO 10646/Unicode
B) Shift JIS
C) Arabic script
D) Cyrillic script

16. Which scholar during the Edo period criticized the large number of kanji?

A) The National Language Council
B) The Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers
C) The Meiji Emperor
D) Kamo no Mabuchi

17. When did the Japanese government announce 1,962 kanji for regular use?

A) 1942
B) 1940
C) 1946
D) May 1923

18. What are the simplified glyphs introduced during the reforms called?

A) Shinjitai
B) Kana
C) Hyōgaiji
D) Heiki meishō

19. What are characters outside of the official standards called?

A) Shinjitai
B) Orthographic characters
C) Hyōgaiji
D) Standard Kanji

20. What is the Japanese pronunciation for 'kanji'?

A) kaɲdʑiꜜ
B) kan-zee
C) ka-n-ji
D) han-zi

21. What is the term for Kanji pronunciations based on vernacular Japanese sounds?

A) kun'yomi
B) wasei-kango
C) furigana
D) on'yomi

22. What is the term for Kanji pronunciations based on Middle Chinese sounds?

A) on'yomi
B) shinjitai
C) kun'yomi
D) man'yōgana

23. Approximately how many Kanji are used in names and common communication today?

A) Nearly 500
B) Nearly 1,000
C) Nearly 10,000
D) Nearly 3,000

24. When did the significant use of Chinese characters in Japan first take hold?

A) 9th century AD
B) 1st century AD
C) Around the 5th century AD
D) 12th century AD

25. What are Japanese-made Chinese words called?

A) mokkan
B) shinjitai
C) man'yōgana
D) wasei-kango

26. Which semi-legendary scholar is credited with bringing Confucianism and Chinese characters to Japan?

A) Emperor Ōjin
B) King Bu of Wa
C) Wani
D) Empress Suiko

27. What were the thin rectangular strips of wood used for writing in ancient times called?

A) mokkan
B) fuhito
C) mana
D) furigana

28. What system allowed Japanese speakers to read Chinese texts by rearranging word order and adding particles?

A) kanbun
B) shinjitai
C) man'yōgana
D) onna-de

29. What was the system that used Chinese characters for their sound rather than meaning called?

A) hiragana
B) kana
C) katakana
D) man'yōgana

30. What does the term 'mana' literally mean?

A) True name
B) Han character
C) Partial kana
D) Borrowed name

31. What are phonetic complements used to disambiguate readings called?

A) fuhito
B) mokkan
C) okurigana
D) shinjitai

32. Who organized the reading and writing of Classical Chinese under the monarch?

A) Wa emissaries
B) Wani
C) monastery students
D) fuhito

33. What kind of script is Kanji considered to be?

A) Syllabic
B) Logographic
C) Phonographic
D) Alphabetic

34. Besides variant kanji, what else can Gaiji include?

A) Non-kanji symbols
B) Standard kana
C) English letters
D) Punctuation marks

35. Why are Gaiji a problem for information interchange?

A) They are too difficult to read
B) Inconsistent code points across systems
C) They take up too much memory
D) They are illegal to use

36. How many code-points were Gaiji reduced to in JIS X 0208-1997?

A) 940
B) 100
C) 500
D) 2000

37. Historically, what were Gaiji used for by Japanese mobile service providers?

A) Encryption
B) Data compression
C) Font styling
D) Emoji

38. Where does Unicode allow for the optional encoding of Gaiji?

A) Standard character tables
B) Public domains
C) System kernels
D) Private use areas

39. What does the Text Encoding Initiative use to encode non-standard characters?

A) A <symbol> header
B) A <kanji> element
C) A <gaiji> tag
D) A <g> element

40. What does SING stand for?

A) System INdependent Gaiji
B) Standardized INdependent Glyphlets
C) Smart INdependent Glyphlets
D) Simple INdependent Glyphlets

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