Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
Chernobyl disaster (April, 1986)
variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)
Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-20, 1944)
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
the twelve nidanas (continuum of twelve phases that lead to suffering)
Order of the Precious Crown, Apricot
shrine receiving offerings from the Bureau of Divinities (pre-Meiji) or the Imperial Household Department (post-Meiji)
Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra)
obstruction markings (red or yellow and white markings on structures taller than 60 meters in accordance with Japanese aviation law)
sort-merge file description entry
diffuse reflection coefficient
professional negligence resulting in injury or death
Chinese bleak (Aphyocypris chinensis)
method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration
Imperial Declaration of Humanity (renunciation of imperial claim to divinity; January 1, 1946)
network service provider
fetch abstract-operation
Atilax (genus containing the marsh mongoose)
Low Frequency Oscillator
emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae)
(warning) flare (esp. used on roads and railways)
amino acid sequence
hiring rate
the eight precepts (the five precepts with the addition of prohibitions against lying in a luxurious bed, self-decoration, song and dance, and eating after noon)
visually correct
type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period)
Sauropsida (branch of amniotes that includes reptiles, birds and non-avian dinosaurs)
something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success
standard printed form (of the 1,022 non-jōyō kanji commonly used in print)