Hello and welcome to a little thing I like to call... MELF'S KANJI CHALLENGE! ...where you can interactively test your knowledge of Japanese. 漢字のチャレンジへ ようこそ！ Can you read the above text? If you have version 4 or higher but the above phrase is not recognizable, you will need to either change your page encoding or download the proper files to recognize Japanese on your system. To change your page encoding: Internet Explorer: Go to View -> Encoding -> More Netscape: Go to View -> Character Endoding -> More -> East Asian Choose Japanese (Shift-JIS) if you see it. If Japanese is not listed at all, you'll have to do some downloading. Sometimes, if you go to a Japanese site (like www.yahoo.co.jp), your browser will automatically ask if you want to download the proper component. Yay! Do this! Otherwise, you must scour the Internet Explorer / Netscape sites for the proper files. (For Internet Explorer, you can try looking for a file named "ie3lpkja.exe" I think this is the one I finally found to work for me.) Upgrading your browser is also a wise thing to do since you can choose your install options. TAKE THE CHALLENGE! (this will open in a new window) About Kanji Challenge: The kanji and meanings come from a variety of standard sources. So far, all of the beginner kanji, many intermediate, and a few advanced kanji are input. I was hoping that eventually, all 1,945 Joyo Kanji would be represented, but I'm not sure that will be possible now. Test yourself from Beginner to Expert levels in English to Kanji, Kanji to English, and vice versa. I wrote this purely for fun and to improve my own skills in both Javascript and Kanji so I hope it is as helpful for you as it was to me! Thanks for visiting!