Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
horn-rimmed glasses
large bathhouse with many different services
Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.)
governor of a feudal domain (1869-1871)
demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo)
to have one's enthusiasm dampened
protection law
Ryukyuan mission to Edo
ornamental writing (esp. initial letters)
pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)
to ask
pyrrhotite
hemimorphite
haüyne
social awareness (e.g. in fiction)
marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family
potato bean (Apios americana)
Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
snubnosed eel (Simenchelys parasitica)
Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene)
reflation
Enhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity)
Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)
tossing a coin (to a street performer or beggar)
approaching the enemy
theatre of the absurd (theater)
pebbled butterflyfish (Chaetodon multicinctus)
Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine