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57471 words JLPT N1 Page 1675 of 1916
内剛外柔 ないごうがいじゅう (naigōgaijū)

gentle on the outside but tough on the inside

Noun N1
新歓コンパ しんかんコンパ (shinkankonpa)

welcome party for new students, club members, etc.

Noun N1
隠忍自重 いんにんじちょう (inninjichō)

(behaving with) patience and prudence

Noun N1
襲名披露 しゅうめいひろう (shūmēhirō)

announcing the succession to another's stage name

Noun N1
胆大心小 たんだいしんしょう (tandaishinshō)

being bold and courageous, but also careful and meticulous

Expression N1
版籍奉還 はんせきほうかん (hansekihōkan)

return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor

Noun N1
思う事言わねば腹膨る おもうこといわねばはらふくる (omōkotoiwanebaharafukuru)

if you don't speak your mind, you'll feel uneasy afterwards

Expression N1
自宅謹慎 じたくきんしん (jitakukinshin)

confinement to one's home

Noun N1
心猿意馬 しんえんいば (shineniba)

(being unable to control) one's worldly desires and passions

Noun N1
先憂後楽 せんゆうこうらく (senyūkōraku)

worrying before one's people worry, enjoying oneself only after one's people have enjoyed themselves (a precept to be observed by a ruler)

Noun N1
聖卓 せいたく (sētaku)

altar (esp. Christian)

Noun N1
奇怪千万 きかいせんばん (kikaisenban)

very strange (mysterious, weird)

Noun N1
勢力伯仲 せいりょくはくちゅう (sēryokuhakuchū)

(two sides) being evenly matched in influence or power

Noun N1
博聞強記 はくぶんきょうき (hakubunkyōki)

being widely read and having a highly retentive memory

Noun N1
小人閑居 しょうじんかんきょ (shōjinkankyo)

a small-minded person being idle (tends to do evil)

Expression N1
精進潔斎 しょうじんけっさい (shōjinkessai)

purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

Noun N1
着眼大局 ちゃくがんたいきょく (chakugantaikyoku)

having an eye to the big picture

Noun N1
風俗壊乱 ふうぞくかいらん (fūzokukairan)

corruption of public morals

Noun N1
面目躍如 めんもくやくじょ (menmokuyakujo)

demonstrative of one's worth

Adjective N1
硝煙弾雨 しょうえんだんう (shōendanu)

smoke of powder and hail of bullets

Noun N1
面従後言 めんじゅうこうげん (menjūkōgen)

pretending to obey someone to his face but badmouthing him behind his back

Noun N1
一虚一実 いっきょいちじつ (ikkyoichijitsu)

constantly changing phase and being highly unpredictable

Noun N1
思慮分別 しりょふんべつ (shiryofunbetsu)

discreet and well-advised judgment

Noun N1
感慨一入 かんがいひとしお (kangaihitoshio)

one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion

Noun N1
保革伯仲 ほかくはくちゅう (hokakuhakuchū)

conservatives and reformists being neck and neck

Noun N1
甲斐がない かいがない (kaiganai)

useless

Expression N1
脱亜入欧 だつあにゅうおう (datsuanyūō)

out of Asia and into Europe

Expression N1
我が子 わがこ (wagako)

one's own child

Expression N1
三環系抗うつ薬 さんかんけいこううつやく (sankankēkōutsuyaku)

tricyclic antidepressant

Noun N1
警察官職務執行法 けいさつかんしょくむしっこうほう (kēsatsukanshokumushikkōhō)

The Police Duties Execution Act

Noun N1