Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
school friend
(so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last
danger past, God forgotten
to change direction
transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to only one child
visiting a shrine or temple to give thanks for the fulfilment of a prayer
motorized two-wheeled vehicle (with a displacement of less than 50cc)
to begin to fall (of rain, snow, etc.)
laziness
movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968)
wearing a kimono with the right side over the left (normally used only for the dead)
Vernal Equinox Day (national holiday; March 20 or 21)
entrance (for passengers at a train station)
this spring
verse form from the Heian and Kamakura periods consisting of 4 lines each divided into two parts of 7 and 5 syllables
Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568)
to resume breathing
TA-Q-BIN (express home delivery service provided by Yamato Transport)
ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)
collectibles
Three Alls Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry)
time for reporting to work
divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)
maternity and gynaecology department (gynecology)
making (a report, plan, contract, etc.)
mixed on-kun kanji reading
the 1,026 kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools
period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)
the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)