Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
multimodality
Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyลgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)
auspicious day for any activity (according to the traditional calendar)
sequestrum
travelling somewhere to improve one's health
pulmonary blood flow
solar telescope
nipplefruit (Solanum mammosum)
unimodal
stone circle
shade of a rock
imperial censor (in ancient China)
Earth Rabbit (16th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1939, 1999, 2059)
new constitution (esp. Japan's postwar constitution)
bond redemption
Four Perils (malevolent beings)
vote by the Diet to appoint the prime minister
to cause a person trouble
Wood Tiger (51st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1914, 1974, 2034)
copper alloy with traces of silver, lead, or tin
even fools can give good counsel
ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south)
to have steady nerves
people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum)
traditional Zen-style architecture
Jintan (brand-name breath mint marketed as having various medicinal properties)
wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting)
night where one waits for someone who is supposed to come
to stamp one's feet (in frustration, impatience, etc.)
type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size)