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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
general secretary (of the Workers' Party of Korea or the Communist Party of Vietnam)
Pisces (12th zodiacal sign)
ridiculously
scorpionfly (esp. the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica)
equatorial coordinates
heterozygote
as a nation
chance of precipitation
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
urea cycle
Nash equilibrium
Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays
ichikotsu mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
pinky swear (i.e. linking little fingers to confirm a promise)
hunter wasp (i.e. potter wasp, sand wasp, etc.)
socialist realism
breathalyser
bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun)
Tourette syndrome
meiosis
Act on the Protection of Personal Information
Indian song and dance (introduced to Japan by the Chams in approx. 736 CE)
anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)
London Underground mosquito (Culex pipiens f. molestus)
daughter cell
10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B)
bimodal
integrated set of schools that offers education from one stage to the next without taking entrance exams en route
Luvarus (genus of perciform fish whose only member is the luvar)
seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)