Japanese kanji trivia
A few (not so) fundamental questions about Japanese kanji.
How many of the 2,136 jōyō kanji are pictographs?
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10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
How many of the 2,136 jōyō kanji are of Japanese origin?
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5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
How many characters are there in Unicode, and is it therefore possible to write them on a computer?
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50k
60k
75k
90k
100k
How many readings does a jōyō kanji have on average?
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2
2.5
3
3.5
4
How many kanji you need to know to understand 98% of all kanji in newspapers?
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1300
1500
1700
1900
2100
Low-frequency kanji with more than how many strokes take significantly longer time to get processed during a reading task?
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more than 10
more than 12
more than 14
more than 16
more than 18
How many dicitionary entries include irregular kanji readings?
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1%
5%
10%
15%
20%
How many strokes does a jōyō kanji have on average?
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6
8
10
12
14
How many kanji were simplified after WWII?
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200
350
500
650
1000
How many jinmeiyō kanji (kanji used in names) there currently are?
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200
400
600
800
1000
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