Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
printed book
structural alteration (of a building)
triangles (used in mechanical drawing)
adjectival noun (in Japanese)
several (boats)
collecting
the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli)
running one's own business
hard to imagine
first volume (in a two or three-volume set)
egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)
mass retirement (esp. that of the Japanese baby boomers)
poverty without selfish desire
official names associated with coaching licenses (105 permanent and heritable, plus those issued to select yokozuna for a single generation)
graduation ceremony
race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track)
bottom of one's heart
infrared rays
to look closely
roadside prohibition-edict boards
going to the capital (esp. of a samurai or daimyo during the Edo period)
state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period
large drop (of rain, sweat, tears, etc.)
texture
tea ceremony
Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)
heat insulating material
local time
substitute character
to use someone's (argument, attack) against them