Kanji Self Test - How many do you know?

Index » Learning resources

  • 1
 
Reply #1 - 2008 June 28, 6:04 am
phauna Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

Here's a test which requires you to check off words you can read in kanji to give you a rough estimate of the number of kanji you 'know'.  It's pretty cool.

http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/LevelCheck/Kanji/01.htm

Reply #2 - 2008 June 28, 10:08 am
Zarxrax Member
From: North Carolina Registered: 2008-03-24 Posts: 949

Pretty cool. It says I know about 200, which is more than I would have thought.

Reply #3 - 2008 June 28, 10:41 am
albion Member
From: England Registered: 2008-05-25 Posts: 383 Website

1500-1600.

I think I've taken it before, but only got around 700 that time.

Advertising (register and sign in to hide this)
JapanesePod101 Sponsor
 
JapanesePod101
Reply #4 - 2008 June 28, 11:49 am
alantin Member
From: Finland Registered: 2007-05-02 Posts: 346

400 - 420

Less than I thought.
I sent the link to myself through futureme.org in half a year and a year.
Interesting to see, how much improvement has happened in that time.

Albion: How well would you say you understand normal japanese unaided?

Last edited by alantin (2008 June 28, 11:51 am)

Reply #5 - 2008 June 28, 1:07 pm
yukamina Member
From: Canada Registered: 2006-01-09 Posts: 761

1600-1700 it says.

Some of them I knew the meaning only, some kanji I apparently totally forgot. Not surprising given I don't review them.

edit: typo :p

Last edited by yukamina (2008 June 28, 1:23 pm)

Reply #6 - 2008 June 28, 1:24 pm
alantin Member
From: Finland Registered: 2007-05-02 Posts: 346

yukamina wrote:

Some of them I knew the meaning only, some kanji I apparently totally forgot. Not surprising given don't review them.

Well.. I only tabbed those compounds that I was confident I knew the correct yomikata.

Reply #7 - 2008 June 28, 1:54 pm
watashimo Member
From: Germany Registered: 2007-04-28 Posts: 76

Nearly 700. Just as I had expected. My current Anki deck says 686 unique kanji.

Reply #8 - 2008 June 28, 2:17 pm
Savara Member
From: London Registered: 2007-09-08 Posts: 104 Website

720-760

Which seems about right... I have almost 700 unique kanji in my sentences in Anki, and then several hundred more in words in Mnemosyne.

Not nearly enough, but I'm working on it.

Last edited by Savara (2008 June 28, 2:17 pm)

Reply #9 - 2008 June 28, 6:10 pm
penne New member
From: Sweden Registered: 2008-03-11 Posts: 6

1100-1200
more than I expected smile

Reply #10 - 2008 June 28, 7:22 pm
cracky Member
From: Las Vegas Registered: 2007-06-25 Posts: 260

690-730

There were a few I was sure I knew but just couldn't remember the reading.  Oh well, not too bad.

Last edited by cracky (2008 June 28, 7:25 pm)

Reply #11 - 2008 June 28, 10:35 pm
radical_tyro Member
Registered: 2005-11-19 Posts: 272

770-810. I'm posting this for reference to check back on after I review all my forgotten vocab cool

Reply #12 - 2008 June 28, 11:03 pm
phauna Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

580-600

I have 986 unique kanji in my deck, 2800 cards, a lot of them are basic grammar sentences with recycled kanji though.

Reply #13 - 2008 June 28, 11:33 pm
stehr Member
From: california Registered: 2007-09-25 Posts: 281

480-500

I only answered for the ones that I knew both reading and meanings for.  BTW... what's the reading for 楽な?  らく?

Pretty fun test, but I'm not convinced that this is very accurate.  Personally I think that I've only "mastered" meaning and readings for around 150-200 kanji.  It's especially apparent when I play my 漢字練習 gbds game, in which I'm currently struggling through 3rd grade.

Reply #14 - 2008 June 29, 1:27 am
yukamina Member
From: Canada Registered: 2006-01-09 Posts: 761

alantin wrote:

yukamina wrote:

Some of them I knew the meaning only, some kanji I apparently totally forgot. Not surprising given don't review them.

Well.. I only tabbed those compounds that I was confident I knew the correct yomikata.

Oh, I didn't check off the ones I didn't know. If I didn't know the reading or the kanji, I didn't check it.

Reply #15 - 2008 June 29, 1:44 am
nac_est Member
From: Italy Registered: 2006-12-12 Posts: 617 Website

1200-1300 for me.

Reply #16 - 2008 June 29, 3:04 am
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

230-250
Ehe. Whow, I know a lot of those kanji, I just could not read them!

Reply #17 - 2008 June 29, 3:24 am
PrettyKitty Member
From: USA Registered: 2007-07-02 Posts: 178

1200-1300

There were a lot that I knew the meanings of but didn't check because I forgot how to pronounce.

Reply #18 - 2008 June 29, 3:58 am
alantin Member
From: Finland Registered: 2007-05-02 Posts: 346

yukamina wrote:

Oh, I didn't check off the ones I didn't know. If I didn't know the reading or the kanji, I didn't check it.

Okay. Sorry! smile

Reply #19 - 2008 June 29, 7:14 am
johnzep Member
From: moriya, ibaraki Registered: 2006-05-14 Posts: 373

1200-1300 for ones I could pronounce and knew the meaning

There are about 1400 kanji in my Anki deck, so probably a decent estimate from that page.

Reply #20 - 2008 June 29, 12:51 pm
albion Member
From: England Registered: 2008-05-25 Posts: 383 Website

alantin wrote:

Albion: How well would you say you understand normal japanese unaided?

As long as things don't get too complicated/specialized towards things I don't know well, I can usually understand what's going on. But sometimes I lose track.

stehr wrote:

I only answered for the ones that I knew both reading and meanings for.  BTW... what's the reading for 楽な?  らく?

らく, yeah.

Reply #21 - 2008 June 29, 1:58 pm
stehr Member
From: california Registered: 2007-09-25 Posts: 281

@albion: thanks

  • 1