Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
all-night vigil over a body
Chagu Chagu Horse Festival (of Iwate Prefecture)
implements used to enhance the effect of a play (e.g. props, costumes, etc.)
the Gospel according to Mark (book of the Bible)
absorbability
private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route
vicarious experience
high quality tatami covering made with soft rush from Hiroshima Prefecture
middle period
twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities
private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route
all varieties of flowers
Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927)
medium build
latter days of the law (one of the three ages of Buddhism)
number of words a person speaks
yellowtail amberjack (species of fish, Seriola lalandi)
battle of words
to add (one thing to another)
all but dead
break (from work, etc.)
job transfer
to fly about
six codes (constitution, civil code, criminal code, commercial code, code of civil procedure, code of criminal procedure)
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road)
retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation
perpetual youth and longevity
selling separately
any red algae in the family Gelidiaceae (esp. Gelidium crinale)