Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
national treasury
to fall on one's shoulders (e.g. responsibility, duty)
printed circuit board
Japan Fair Trade Commission
Le petit prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupรฉry)
electroencephalograph
subjunctive mood
picking through garbage
Immigration Bureau
one's daughter and heiress
the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the traditional calendar for each year (in Onmyลdล)
dim witted
to fold one's wings
counter selling
rear carrier of a palanquin
job sequencing
change
celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)
49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 56th, 57th, 58th or 60th day of the sexagenary cycle (said to be inauspicious with a high probability of rain)
court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud
shiku-kaisei city planning
artificial flower
pen-shaped
National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology
Rice Millers' Association
train ticket printed on soft paper, etc. (usu. dispensed from a vending machine as part of a roll)
very deep
Raman effect (of inelastic photon scattering)
drinkers drink too much (and harm themselves in the process), nondrinkers drink too little (and miss out on the medicinal benefits of alcohol)