JLPT N5 Kanji Quiz
Practise all 82 JLPT N5 kanji: what each one means, how it is read, and which kanji matches a meaning. Four choices a question and the answer straight after, free, with no sign-up.
New to them? Study the N5 kanji list first. Already learning? Review the kanji you have learned.
Choose the N5 kanji to practise
JLPT format · N5
Pick a set of practice questions
These are our own questions, written in the same two formats that open the vocabulary part of the real N5 exam: in Mondai 1 you read an underlined kanji word, in Mondai 2 you pick the kanji for an underlined kana word. A set is a small slice of what the real exam asks, and your score on it says nothing about how you would score on the JLPT.
How the N5 kanji quiz works
A round is ten questions unless you ask for twenty or for every kanji you picked, and no kanji comes up twice in one round. There are three kinds of question:
- Kanji to meaning. See 水, pick “water”.
- Kanji to reading. See 水, pick みず / すい (mizu / sui). Every reading carries its romaji, so you can play before you can read kana.
- Meaning to kanji. See “water”, pick 水 out of four characters.
Where a group has them, two of the three wrong answers come from the same group as the right one: 東 is asked against other directions, 三 against other numbers. Those are the mix-ups that actually happen. No two choices ever share a meaning, or on a reading question a reading, so exactly one is right.
After each question you see the answer, its readings and a link to the kanji’s stroke order. At the end, mark the ones you got right as learned and they join your spaced-repetition reviews, which bring each kanji back at growing intervals.
Got the N5 kanji down? Take the N4 kanji quiz, or browse the N4 kanji list.
JLPT N5 kanji practice questions: our own, in the exam’s format
The JLPT format tab above plays our own practice questions in the same two formats that open the vocabulary part of the real N5 exam. Pick one of 5 sets and answer 12 questions in order, with the answer after each one. Each question is built on a real example sentence from Tatoeba, credited beside it.
- Mondai 1 (7 per set): a word in kanji is underlined in a sentence, and you choose how it is read from four kana spellings.
- Mondai 2 (5 per set): a word in hiragana is underlined, and you choose the kanji it is written with.
These are not questions from the JLPT, and a set is only a small slice of the real exam, which asks far more questions of many other kinds. Your score tells you how a set went, not what you would score on the day. For real questions, use the official free sample questions (opens in a new tab) and practice workbook (opens in a new tab).