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59242 words JLPT N1 Page 1795 of 1975
パラダイス鎖国 パラダイスさこく (paradaisusakoku)

isolation paradise (esp. unique products without foreign competition)

noun N1
泣く子と地頭には勝てぬ なくことじとうにはかてぬ (nakukotojitōnihakatenu)

you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason

expression N1
功罪相償う こうざいあいつぐなう (kōzaiaitsugunau)

the good and bad deeds cancel each other out

expression N1
伊達の薄着 だてのうすぎ (datenōsugi)

wearing light clothes for the sake of fashion

expression N1
稼ぐに追いつく貧乏なし かせぐにおいつくびんぼうなし (kasegunioitsukubinbōnashi)

poverty is a stranger to industry

expression N1
子を持って知る親の恩 こをもってしるおやのおん (kowomotteshiruoyanōn)

becoming a parent makes you appreciate your own parents

expression N1
創業は易く守成は難し そうぎょうはやすくしゅせいはかたし (sōgyōhayasukushusēhakatashi)

it is easy to start an enterprise but hard to maintain it

expression N1
渦巻き線 うずまきせん (uzumakisen)

spiral

noun N1
衣ばかりで和尚はできぬ ころもばかりでおしょうはできぬ (koromobakarideoshōhadekinu)

the clothes do not make the man

expression N1
ならぬ堪忍するが堪忍 ならぬかんにんするがかんにん (naranukanninsurugakannin)

to endure what is unendurable is true endurance

expression N1
最善の措置 さいぜんのそち (saizennosochi)

best practices

expression N1
盛年重ねて来たらず せいねんかさねてきたらず (sēnenkasanetekitarazu)

time and tide wait for no man

expression N1
知者も千慮に一失 ちしゃもせんりょにいっしつ (chishamosenryonīsshitsu)

even Homer sometimes nods

expression N1
好機逸すべからず こうきいっすべからず (kōkīssubekarazu)

make hay while the sun shines

expression N1
自己決定権 じこけっていけん (jikokettēken)

right of self-determination

noun N1
老いては子に従え おいてはこにしたがえ (oitehakonishitagae)

be guided by your children when you are old

expression N1
糧食準備 りょうしょくじゅんび (ryōshokujunbi)

food preparation

noun N1
赤の女王仮説 あかのじょおうかせつ (akanojoōkasetsu)

Red Queen hypothesis (of evolutionary biology)

noun N1
暑さ寒さも彼岸まで あつささむさもひがんまで (atsusasamusamohiganmade)

no heat or cold lasts over the equinox

expression N1
軌道関数 きどうかんすう (kidōkansū)

orbital function

noun N1
知らぬは亭主ばかりなり しらぬはていしゅばかりなり (shiranuhatēshubakarinari)

the husband is always the last to know

expression N1
近しき中に礼儀有り ちかしきなかにれいぎあり (chikashikinakanirēgiari)

good fences make good neighbors

expression N1
全反射プリズム ぜんはんしゃプリズム (zenhanshapurizumu)

total reflection prism

noun N1
騒がせる さわがせる (sawagaseru)

to disturb

verb N1
悲嘆に暮れる ひたんにくれる (hitannikureru)

to be filled with grief

expression N1
序でながら ついでながら (tsuidenagara)

while I have the opportunity (I'd also like to say ...)

expression N1
手荷物検査 てにもつけんさ (tenimotsukensa)

hand baggage inspection

noun N1
不飽和化合物 ふほうわかごうぶつ (fuhōwakagōbutsu)

unsaturated compound

noun N1
去る者日々に疎し さるものひびにうとし (sarumonohibiniutoshi)

with time we forget those who have died

expression N1
後悔先に立たず こうかいさきにたたず (kōkaisakinitatazu)

it is no use crying over spilt milk

expression N1