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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
solar tide (tides caused by the Sun)
tomb embedded in a Yayoi period barrow
chicken skin (esp. in cooking)
immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism)
hex socket head cap bolt
clay mineral
pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)
six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)
Mon-Khmer languages
breaking a lock
collection of handwriting (usu. old)
white-handed gibbon
court of first instance
to do (indicating contempt for other person's actions)
pent-up resentment
genetic locus
class action lawsuit
the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period
hemolytic disease of the newborn (haemolytic)
platyrrhine (primate of infraorder Platyrrhini, which have nostrils that are far apart)
primary immunodeficiency syndrome
apologies for the crude food
erythroblastosis (abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood)
cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances)
hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)
speculator
excited state
Jōgan period (of art history; 859-877 CE)
inferior vena cava
Suiko period (i.e. the Asuka period, esp. under the reign of Empress Suiko, approx. 592-628 CE)