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  • 1. How many characters are in the kyōiku kanji list?
A) 2,136
B) 1,026
C) 2,999
D) 863
  • 2. Which government body maintains the kyōiku kanji list?
A) Ministry of Justice
B) Japanese Industrial Standards committee
C) Japanese Ministry of Education
D) The Cabinet Office
  • 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) 2,136
B) 1,850
C) 1,026
D) 6,355
  • 5. When were the jōyō kanji introduced?
A) 1946
B) 1952
C) 1981
D) 2010
  • 6. What was the name of the list of 1,850 characters that preceded the jōyō kanji?
A) Gakushū kanji
B) Hyōgai kanji
C) Jinmeiyō kanji
D) Tōyō kanji
  • 7. When were the tōyō kanji introduced?
A) 2017
B) 1946
C) 1952
D) 1981
  • 8. What is the term for kanji used in personal names?
A) Kyōiku kanji
B) Jōyō kanji
C) Jinmeiyō kanji
D) Hyōgai kanji
  • 9. What does 'hyōgai kanji' literally translate to?
A) Personal-name kanji
B) General-use kanji
C) Education kanji
D) Unlisted characters
  • 10. How many kanji does JIS X 0208 contain?
A) 6,355
B) 1,026
C) 3,695
D) 5,801
  • 11. Which JIS standard is considered effectively obsolete?
A) JIS X 0212
B) JIS X 0208
C) JIS X 0213
D) JIS X 0221
  • 12. What does the term 'jōyō kanji' mean?
A) Education kanji
B) Personal-name kanji
C) Regular-use kanji
D) General-use kanji
  • 13. How many characters were in the original jinmeiyō kanji list in 1952?
A) 1,850
B) 92
C) 863
D) 2,999
  • 14. What is used in publishing when a character is outside the jōyō kanji category?
A) Furigana
B) Latin alphabet
C) Shinjitai
D) Arabic numerals
  • 15. JIS X 0221:1995 is the Japanese version of which international standard?
A) ISO 10646/Unicode
B) Arabic script
C) Cyrillic script
D) Shift JIS
  • 16. Which scholar during the Edo period criticized the large number of kanji?
A) The Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers
B) The Meiji Emperor
C) The National Language Council
D) Kamo no Mabuchi
  • 17. When did the Japanese government announce 1,962 kanji for regular use?
A) 1946
B) May 1923
C) 1942
D) 1940
  • 18. What are the simplified glyphs introduced during the reforms called?
A) Hyōgaiji
B) Shinjitai
C) Heiki meishō
D) Kana
  • 19. What are characters outside of the official standards called?
A) Orthographic characters
B) Shinjitai
C) Hyōgaiji
D) Standard Kanji
  • 20. What is the Japanese pronunciation for 'kanji'?
A) han-zi
B) ka-n-ji
C) kan-zee
D) kaɲdʑiꜜ
  • 21. What is the term for Kanji pronunciations based on vernacular Japanese sounds?
A) furigana
B) on'yomi
C) wasei-kango
D) kun'yomi
  • 22. What is the term for Kanji pronunciations based on Middle Chinese sounds?
A) man'yōgana
B) on'yomi
C) kun'yomi
D) shinjitai
  • 23. Approximately how many Kanji are used in names and common communication today?
A) Nearly 10,000
B) Nearly 500
C) Nearly 1,000
D) Nearly 3,000
  • 24. When did the significant use of Chinese characters in Japan first take hold?
A) Around the 5th century AD
B) 1st century AD
C) 9th century AD
D) 12th century AD
  • 25. What are Japanese-made Chinese words called?
A) mokkan
B) wasei-kango
C) shinjitai
D) man'yōgana
  • 26. Which semi-legendary scholar is credited with bringing Confucianism and Chinese characters to Japan?
A) Empress Suiko
B) Emperor Ōjin
C) King Bu of Wa
D) Wani
  • 27. What were the thin rectangular strips of wood used for writing in ancient times called?
A) fuhito
B) furigana
C) mokkan
D) mana
  • 28. What system allowed Japanese speakers to read Chinese texts by rearranging word order and adding particles?
A) onna-de
B) kanbun
C) man'yōgana
D) shinjitai
  • 29. What was the system that used Chinese characters for their sound rather than meaning called?
A) man'yōgana
B) katakana
C) kana
D) hiragana
  • 30. What does the term 'mana' literally mean?
A) Partial kana
B) Borrowed name
C) True name
D) Han character
  • 31. What are phonetic complements used to disambiguate readings called?
A) shinjitai
B) mokkan
C) fuhito
D) okurigana
  • 32. Who organized the reading and writing of Classical Chinese under the monarch?
A) Wani
B) monastery students
C) fuhito
D) Wa emissaries
  • 33. What kind of script is Kanji considered to be?
A) Logographic
B) Alphabetic
C) Syllabic
D) Phonographic
  • 34. Besides variant kanji, what else can Gaiji include?
A) English letters
B) Punctuation marks
C) Non-kanji symbols
D) Standard kana
  • 35. Why are Gaiji a problem for information interchange?
A) They are illegal to use
B) Inconsistent code points across systems
C) They are too difficult to read
D) They take up too much memory
  • 36. How many code-points were Gaiji reduced to in JIS X 0208-1997?
A) 500
B) 100
C) 2000
D) 940
  • 37. Historically, what were Gaiji used for by Japanese mobile service providers?
A) Data compression
B) Font styling
C) Emoji
D) Encryption
  • 38. Where does Unicode allow for the optional encoding of Gaiji?
A) Private use areas
B) Public domains
C) Standard character tables
D) System kernels
  • 39. What does the Text Encoding Initiative use to encode non-standard characters?
A) A <g> element
B) A <gaiji> tag
C) A <kanji> element
D) A <symbol> header
  • 40. What does SING stand for?
A) System INdependent Gaiji
B) Simple INdependent Glyphlets
C) Standardized INdependent Glyphlets
D) Smart INdependent Glyphlets
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