| If you're reading this, you're probably looking for | | | | mean on, under, before/front, after/behind, and |
| the scoop on the Japanese Language Proficiency | | | | inside |
| Test level 4 kanji. | | | | - People--you need to know the kanji for male |
| Contrary to what you might think, level 4 is | | | | and female, mother and father, child, and person. |
| actually the easiest JLPT--level 1 is the hardest. If | | | | You also need to know two writings of |
| you're like many other people, you find kanji | | | | "friend"--yuujin and tomodachi (you only need to |
| tough to study up on. | | | | know the tomo part) |
| For the JLPT level 4 kanji section, you need to | | | | - Adjectives--you need the kanji for ookii, chiisai, |
| know about 80 kanji. If you know which ones to | | | | shiroi, takai, nagai, and marui |
| get comfy on, there won't be any surprises on | | | | - The 4 compass directions, as well as "left" and |
| test day. | | | | "right" |
| Rather than giving you a long item-by-item | | | | - Basic verbs--iku, kuru, miru, kiku, yomu, kaku, |
| checklist, I'll keep it short and sweet. Here are the | | | | yomu, umareru, taberu and yasumu. You also |
| JLTP level 4 kanji you need to know: | | | | need the kanji for deru and dasu, and the one for |
| - All the numbers, up through the kanji for 10,000. | | | | hairu and iru |
| You don't need to know the kanji for zero | | | | There are a few other very easy kanji on the |
| - The days of the week. You do NOT have to | | | | JLTP 4 that you may know already. You can find |
| know the complicated kanji that is pronounced | | | | a full list of them on the full article, or on other |
| you (that's level 3) | | | | websites. |
| - Anything you would use to give a time of day | | | | Mastery of the JLPT level 4 kanji will allow you to |
| of time of year. You also need to know relative | | | | read a surprising amount of Japanese. Plus, you'll |
| times like "next year", "last year", etc. | | | | ace that section of the test. |
| - Prepositions--here, you just need the kanji that | | | | |