Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum)
Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)
Suika Shinto (fusion of Shinto with Chinese elements, esp. neo-Confucianism)
writing system
Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)
round leaved primula (Primula obconica)
as is
to commit a crime
photography event
space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.)
(having an) overactive imagination
Department of State Affairs (Tang dynasty China)
preeminence
to hit a nerve
Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
phrasal verb
cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.)
slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)
incense clock (marks time with a smouldering train of incense)
homograph
minuteness
incense clock
consecutive interpretation
tolerant
signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)
Ministry of Personnel (Tang dynasty China)
third person singular present
to shake one's head
to punish (esp. with death)