How to Ace Your JLPT Level 4 Kanji

If you're reading this, you're probably looking formean on, under, before/front, after/behind, and
the scoop on the Japanese Language Proficiencyinside
Test level 4 kanji.- People--you need to know the kanji for male
Contrary to what you might think, level 4 isand female, mother and father, child, and person.
actually the easiest JLPT--level 1 is the hardest. IfYou 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 toshiroi, 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 theyomu, 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 zeroThere are a few other very easy kanji on the
- The days of the week. You do NOT have toJLTP 4 that you may know already. You can find
know the complicated kanji that is pronounceda 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 dayMastery of the JLPT level 4 kanji will allow you to
of time of year. You also need to know relativeread 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