Kanji & vocab list question

lostcandy · JLPT Starter Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Posts: 7

Hi all

I'm studing for N4 and wonder if anyone can help with a couple of queries. (London Jul '11)

Knowledge for N4 is approx 1500 words of vocab and 300 kanji:

Firstly, are those 300 kanji meanings included in the 1500 words?

Also, when one of the 1500 vocab words has a kanji that's not in the 300 kanji list, is furigana be given or will the word be written in kana?

Thanks for the help!

NeWbY · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:32 am Post subject:

Those 300 kanji's are in the words, yes. Notice though that there's not an official list of given words / kanji's you need to know for N4.

Most likely the word will be given in kana or furigana.

lostcandy · JLPT Starter Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Posts: 7

Thanks, that's good news.

RGer · JLPT Starter Joined: 16 Dec 2010 Posts: 46

Is there even any furigana? Words with kanji you aren't supposed to know yet are written in hiragana as far as I recall.

NeWbY · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:39 am Post subject:

AFAIK for reading they use furigana for N2, but not sure for lower levels.