Cartoons are a great way to practice your Chinese listening skills, because they’re fun to watch, use pretty simple language and it’s usually easy to figure out what’s going on even if you miss a few lines of dialogue. What’s more, most of the popular cartoons in China are imported from the West or Japan, so you’ll probably already know the characters and the basic plot.
This nciku quiz tests your knowledge of cartoon characters by giving you their Chinese name and letting you choose the matching character in English. As usual, you can see the name’s pinyin pronunciation by hovering your mouse over the question, and you’ll be given the correct answer of each question after you’ve answered it.
Have fun!
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21 responses so far ↓
1 Karim
Sep 27, 2011 at 1:35 pm
its Popeye
2 Kevin
Sep 27, 2011 at 1:52 pm
@Karim you can click on the pictures to see whether you got each question right, then you get a score at the end
3 ayman
Sep 27, 2011 at 3:37 pm
It was interesting, actually, it was just a guessing trying to match the pronouncing and the character
4 arummmanis
Sep 27, 2011 at 7:09 pm
I got 10 out of 10
5 LaoLo
Sep 27, 2011 at 7:45 pm
I got 10 out of 10 as well, but the MDBG online dictionary/translator functioned brilliantly. LOL
6 Erik
Sep 28, 2011 at 3:42 am
Hey, sorry if this is the wrong way to give in-put to you.. but I’ve followed the site and your blog for a while, and I see you did some traditional stuff already, but are you working on bringing us traditional stroke order? It’d really help for us learning the traditional characters since I really came to your site to learn how to write them. You’d be totally unique in providing this if you ever completed it, so I think it’d bring a lot of people to your site.
7 Kevin
Sep 28, 2011 at 5:31 pm
@Erik thanks for the suggestion. We’re not working on this at the moment, but we’ll definitely bear it in mind for the future.
8 Patrick
Oct 13, 2011 at 12:23 am
Lol! EASY 10 out of 10. but well, that’s probably cos i AM chinese.
9 Kevin
Oct 13, 2011 at 10:33 am
@Patrick if you’re a Chinese person studying English, you might find the nciku.cn blog more useful.
10 孙悟空 (Monkey King)
Oct 16, 2011 at 9:24 pm
I live in China, and as a student, Nciku is one of the best dictionaries for me the use! Easy 10 out of 10, because I can actually read Chinese and can tell by the sounds… THANKS NCIKU!!!
11 Chad
Oct 25, 2011 at 9:07 pm
I might have missed Naruto, but the characters of the name are right on his palm.
12 Joey
Oct 31, 2011 at 11:01 am
9/10
I missed the naruto one too lol
If I only knew! now i know! haha
13 Chris McColl
Nov 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I’ve been urging the content of Chinese learning materials to be international and this is a great example of this. How about a quiz about famous Spaniards (Penelope Cruz, Cervantes etc.)
14 Poopy Girl
Nov 1, 2011 at 6:57 pm
This is soooo easy! 10/10! And I don’t even watch cartoons that much. I didn’t watch the Smurfs yet.
15 Poopy Girl
Nov 1, 2011 at 6:59 pm
2 time i did this. got 10/10 again. EXACT SAME QUESTIONS!!!
16 马宁
Nov 1, 2011 at 7:42 pm
9/10 基本上都能猜对哟
17 Michael Lao Gong
Nov 2, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Great test and lots of fun to do!
I haven’t seen any of these in Chinese. Does anyone know where to see them online?
Thanks!
18 Kevin
Nov 3, 2011 at 10:36 am
@Michael Lao Gong try youku.com or ku6.com (they’re Chinese sites that are similar to YouTube).
19 Sasha
Dec 12, 2011 at 12:48 am
I wish nciku have an easer navigation …. I wanted to go back to a small section where it shows Decompose a character (separate the parts). I could not find it no matter what. Please help. Thanks!
20 cnn123
Dec 25, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Just wonder why all character all have other name on Chinese? ^_^
21 nermo
Nov 25, 2012 at 8:42 pm
good job
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