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  • 1. How many characters are in the kyōiku kanji list?
A) 2,136
B) 2,999
C) 863
D) 1,026
  • 2. Which government body maintains the kyōiku kanji list?
A) The Cabinet Office
B) Ministry of Justice
C) Japanese Ministry of Education
D) Japanese Industrial Standards committee
  • 3. What is the primary purpose of the gakunen-betsu kanji haitōhyō?
A) To establish rules for scientific terminology
B) To list all kanji used in personal names
C) To define computer character code-points
D) To break down kanji by elementary school grade level
  • 4. How many characters are included in the jōyō kanji list?
A) 2,136
B) 1,026
C) 6,355
D) 1,850
  • 5. When were the jōyō kanji introduced?
A) 2010
B) 1946
C) 1952
D) 1981
  • 6. What was the name of the list of 1,850 characters that preceded the jōyō kanji?
A) Tōyō kanji
B) Hyōgai kanji
C) Gakushū kanji
D) Jinmeiyō kanji
  • 7. When were the tōyō kanji introduced?
A) 2017
B) 1946
C) 1981
D) 1952
  • 8. What is the term for kanji used in personal names?
A) Kyōiku kanji
B) Jōyō kanji
C) Hyōgai kanji
D) Jinmeiyō kanji
  • 9. What does 'hyōgai kanji' literally translate to?
A) Education kanji
B) Personal-name kanji
C) General-use kanji
D) Unlisted characters
  • 10. How many kanji does JIS X 0208 contain?
A) 3,695
B) 5,801
C) 6,355
D) 1,026
  • 11. Which JIS standard is considered effectively obsolete?
A) JIS X 0221
B) JIS X 0213
C) JIS X 0208
D) JIS X 0212
  • 12. What does the term 'jōyō kanji' mean?
A) Personal-name kanji
B) Education kanji
C) Regular-use kanji
D) General-use kanji
  • 13. How many characters were in the original jinmeiyō kanji list in 1952?
A) 2,999
B) 1,850
C) 863
D) 92
  • 14. What is used in publishing when a character is outside the jōyō kanji category?
A) Furigana
B) Latin alphabet
C) Shinjitai
D) Arabic numerals
  • 15. JIS X 0221:1995 is the Japanese version of which international standard?
A) ISO 10646/Unicode
B) Arabic script
C) Cyrillic script
D) Shift JIS
  • 16. Which scholar during the Edo period criticized the large number of kanji?
A) The Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers
B) The Meiji Emperor
C) The National Language Council
D) Kamo no Mabuchi
  • 17. When did the Japanese government announce 1,962 kanji for regular use?
A) 1942
B) 1946
C) 1940
D) May 1923
  • 18. What are the simplified glyphs introduced during the reforms called?
A) Shinjitai
B) Hyōgaiji
C) Kana
D) Heiki meishō
  • 19. What are characters outside of the official standards called?
A) Hyōgaiji
B) Orthographic characters
C) Standard Kanji
D) Shinjitai
  • 20. What is the Japanese pronunciation for 'kanji'?
A) kan-zee
B) kaɲdʑiꜜ
C) ka-n-ji
D) han-zi
  • 21. What is the term for Kanji pronunciations based on vernacular Japanese sounds?
A) on'yomi
B) wasei-kango
C) furigana
D) kun'yomi
  • 22. What is the term for Kanji pronunciations based on Middle Chinese sounds?
A) man'yōgana
B) on'yomi
C) shinjitai
D) kun'yomi
  • 23. Approximately how many Kanji are used in names and common communication today?
A) Nearly 10,000
B) Nearly 1,000
C) Nearly 500
D) Nearly 3,000
  • 24. When did the significant use of Chinese characters in Japan first take hold?
A) 9th century AD
B) 12th century AD
C) 1st century AD
D) Around the 5th century AD
  • 25. What are Japanese-made Chinese words called?
A) wasei-kango
B) mokkan
C) shinjitai
D) man'yōgana
  • 26. Which semi-legendary scholar is credited with bringing Confucianism and Chinese characters to Japan?
A) Wani
B) Empress Suiko
C) King Bu of Wa
D) Emperor Ōjin
  • 27. What were the thin rectangular strips of wood used for writing in ancient times called?
A) mokkan
B) fuhito
C) mana
D) furigana
  • 28. What system allowed Japanese speakers to read Chinese texts by rearranging word order and adding particles?
A) shinjitai
B) onna-de
C) kanbun
D) man'yōgana
  • 29. What was the system that used Chinese characters for their sound rather than meaning called?
A) katakana
B) hiragana
C) kana
D) man'yōgana
  • 30. What does the term 'mana' literally mean?
A) Partial kana
B) True name
C) Borrowed name
D) Han character
  • 31. What are phonetic complements used to disambiguate readings called?
A) mokkan
B) okurigana
C) fuhito
D) shinjitai
  • 32. Who organized the reading and writing of Classical Chinese under the monarch?
A) Wa emissaries
B) fuhito
C) monastery students
D) Wani
  • 33. What kind of script is Kanji considered to be?
A) Phonographic
B) Alphabetic
C) Logographic
D) Syllabic
  • 34. Besides variant kanji, what else can Gaiji include?
A) Standard kana
B) Punctuation marks
C) Non-kanji symbols
D) English letters
  • 35. Why are Gaiji a problem for information interchange?
A) Inconsistent code points across systems
B) They are illegal to use
C) They are too difficult to read
D) They take up too much memory
  • 36. How many code-points were Gaiji reduced to in JIS X 0208-1997?
A) 100
B) 500
C) 940
D) 2000
  • 37. Historically, what were Gaiji used for by Japanese mobile service providers?
A) Font styling
B) Data compression
C) Encryption
D) Emoji
  • 38. Where does Unicode allow for the optional encoding of Gaiji?
A) Public domains
B) Standard character tables
C) System kernels
D) Private use areas
  • 39. What does the Text Encoding Initiative use to encode non-standard characters?
A) A <symbol> header
B) A <kanji> element
C) A <g> element
D) A <gaiji> tag
  • 40. What does SING stand for?
A) Simple INdependent Glyphlets
B) System INdependent Gaiji
C) Smart INdependent Glyphlets
D) Standardized INdependent Glyphlets
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