[Interesting] Summary of Kanji Reading Quiz Questions
Are you good with kanji?
Some people say they can’t write difficult kanji but are good at reading them, while others feel kanji is really not their strong suit at all.
Here, we present a lineup of quizzes focused mainly on hard-to-read kanji.
We also offer many you can try casually to kill a bit of time in your spare moments.
Thinking through them makes for good brain training, so we highly recommend it.
Whether you love kanji or struggle with it, give it a try!
- A quiz of interesting obscure kanji: characters that look easy but are hard to read
- [Trick Quiz] Quiz Questions That Excite Everyone from Kids to Adults
- How many can you read? A quiz on difficult kanji for foods
- Fun quizzes for elementary school kids: a collection of questions everyone can enjoy together
- [For Seniors] Challenging but Exciting! Kanji Quiz
- Learn by Playing! Recommended Games with a Kanji Theme
- The world’s toughest! A collection of insanely hard-to-read kanji
- A quiz on how to read obscure kanji: words that become difficult when written in kanji.
- [Hard-to-Read Quiz] Single-character difficult kanji — including surprisingly simple ones!
- [For Elementary School Students] Cipher Quiz: Fun Puzzle Riddles
- Can You Read These? Quiz on Kanji with Many Strokes
- One-character difficult kanji quiz: a multiple-choice (3 options) game to learn the readings of challenging kanji
- [Satisfying When Solved] Challenging Quizzes Recommended for Elementary School Students!
[Interesting] Summary of Kanji Reading Quiz Questions (21–30)
Creative Kanji Quiz
When it comes to kanji-based quizzes, a variety of ideas come to mind: quizzes on difficult-to-read kanji, fill-in-the-blank puzzles for two-character and four-character compounds, synonym and antonym quizzes, and so on.
What we’re introducing here, however, is a “creative kanji quiz.” As the name suggests, “creative kanji” involves producing original characters by combining actual kanji and the like.
There’s even a contest hosted by The Sankei Shimbun and the Shirakawa Shizuka Institute of East Asian Characters and Culture at Ritsumeikan University, so quite a few people may have tried coming up with their own creative kanji.
For a quiz, you can use creative kanji that have actually won awards, or you can intentionally use original creations devised by the quizmaster.
The latter puts the quizmaster’s sense to the test and might make things even more exciting!
Difficult Kanji Quiz
It’s a simple quiz where you think about how to read the kanji presented.
Even for words you see or say every day, you might find you can’t read them when they appear as kanji.
Since the key is to retrieve the answer from memory, make good use of hints to stimulate your brain.
If you narrow the questions down to categories like food or seasons, and provide hints such as revealing the first syllable after a set amount of time, it may help participants realize the answer.
Amazing if you can read it! Three readings for a single kanji
Although it may seem like there are many kanji we see in everyday life, the ones we actually encounter are somewhat limited, and there are in fact kanji that we rarely have the chance to see.
This is a quiz that focuses on those less commonly seen kanji and asks you to think about how they are read.
Each kanji’s reading is limited to three kana characters, so try to expand your imagination based on the components and overall impression of the character.
Sometimes you can’t tell just by looking at the kanji, so it’s also recommended to reveal the initial letter of the reading or have participants infer the reading from the meaning.
In conclusion
We introduced plenty of quizzes on kanji readings and difficult-to-read kanji. Some I already knew and could read, while others I couldn’t read at all and learned from. The world of kanji is truly profound! Were you able to read them smoothly?