Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
votive lantern in a shrine or temple
(female) private nurse
decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year
betraying one's lord (and going over to the enemy)
member of an entourage or retinue or party
tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.
pocket mirror
a self-supporting accounting system
an anti-corrosive (agent)
residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses
(the Christian sacrament of) confirmation
source of infection
exemption from military service
offering (to a shogun, emperor, daimyo, kami or Buddha)
message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand
triumphant
stretching out (in a longitudinal direction)
tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
winner of Japan's three main horse races
win an election due to another's death or disqualification
quickly prepared meal or dish
string-fastener
vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste
field cap (used by Japanese troops in WWII)
very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar)
ray gun (in science fiction)
Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)
electoral quota (e.g. in a proportional representation system)
crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono)
homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different meaning)