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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika)
chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste
crown of a buddha's head
rainforest
American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica)
Wernicke's area
octagon
carpal (bone)
cow hide tanned using tannin
bad things happen to those who attempt things
archicortex
Mendel's laws (of genetic inheritance)
phalanx
taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)
knitted hat
strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried
racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence
phospholipid
great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family)
thinly sliced and dried strips of daikon
Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides)
sinistral fault
to keep in contact (e.g. by phone, mail, etc.)
thirty-three sacred places in the Kanto region (which was previously known as Bandō)
tarsus (group of small bones between the tibia and fibula and the metatarsus)
group of languages (subgroup of a branch)
aschelminth (any invertebrate animal formerly classified as belonging to phylum Aschelminthes)
self-employed person
malaria therapy (formerly used to treat syphilis, etc.)