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43831 words JLPT N3 Page 1308 of 1462
逃げを打つ にげをうつ (nigewōtsu)

to (prepare to) run away (from one's responsibilities, etc.)

expression N3
電気ウナギ でんきウナギ (denkiunagi)

electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)

noun N3
進学校 しんがっこう (shingakkō)

school with a high proportion of graduates accepted into high-ranking universities

noun N3
エネルギー論 エネルギーろん (enerugīron)

energetics

noun N3
捕れる とれる (toreru)

to be caught (of a wild animal, fish, baseball, etc.)

verb N3
命婦 みょうぶ (myōbu)

title for high-ranking court ladies

noun N3
三平方の定理 さんへいほうのていり (sanhēhōnotēri)

Pythagorean theorem

noun N3
歳差 さいさ (saisa)

(phenomenon of) precession of the equinoxes

noun N3
お気を確かに おきをたしかに (okiwotashikani)

don't do anything rash!

expression N3
横海老 よこえび (yokoebi)

gammaridean amphipod (any small, shrimp-like crustacean of suborder Gammaridea)

noun N3
お先真っ暗 おさきまっくら (osakimakkura)

(looking) very bleak

adjective N3
気に病む きにやむ (kiniyamu)

to worry (about)

expression N3
できる限り早く できるかぎりはやく (dekirukagirihayaku)

as soon as possible

expression N3
労働三法 ろうどうさんぽう (rōdōsanpō)

the three major labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, and labor relations adjustment law)

noun N3
馬大頭 おにやんま (oniyanma)

Siebold's dragonfly (Anotogaster sieboldii)

noun N3
フン族 フンぞく (funzoku)

Huns (nomadic people)

noun N3
静止エネルギー せいしエネルギー (sēshienerugī)

rest energy

noun N3
背が立つ せがたつ (segatatsu)

to have one's feet reach the bottom (e.g. when standing in water)

expression N3
消費期限 しょうひきげん (shōhikigen)

expiry date (esp. on food)

noun N3
三易 さんえき (saneki)

three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun N3
直示 ちょくじ (chokuji)

deixis

noun N3
船頭多くして船山に登る せんどうおおくしてふねやまにのぼる (sendōōkushitefuneyamaninoboru)

too many cooks spoil the broth

expression N3
後期中等教育 こうきちゅうとうきょういく (kōkichūtōkyōiku)

upper secondary education (e.g. high school)

noun N3
原子力研究所 げんしりょくけんきゅうじょ (genshiryokukenkyūjo)

Atomic Energy Research Institute

noun N3
高度道路交通システム こうどどうろこうつうシステム (kōdodōrokōtsūshisutemu)

intelligent transportation system

noun N3
ワインバーグサラム理論 ワインバーグサラムりろん (wainbāgusaramuriron)

Weinberg-Salam theory

noun N3
育ちが悪い そだちがわるい (sodachigawarui)

ill-bred

expression N3
ケチ付ける ケチつける (kechitsukeru)

to find fault (with)

expression N3
書きかけ かきかけ (kakikake)

unfinished (letter, text, etc.)

noun N3
美人画 びじんが (bijinga)

portrait of a beautiful woman (esp. ukiyo-e)

noun N3