Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
leader of a group of juvenile delinquents
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
collection of words or drawings by several people on a single sheet of paper
Japanese and Chinese literature
reading (someone else's letter, diary, etc.) surreptitiously
increasing the number (of trains, planes, etc.) in operation
catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
in traveling, a companion; in life, sympathy
hetuvidya (ancient Indian logic for determining right from wrong, truth from falsehood, etc.)
once-powerful nation now in decline
to call for someone's participation
home use
Coralliidae (family of corals)
New Ainu Law (aimed at promoting and protecting Ainu culture; 1997, 2019)
the Gospel according to John (book of the Bible)
marriage between two people who met over the Internet
to draw a line (between)
network addressing authority
euphemisms used by hunters, lumberjacks, etc. when in the wild
parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)
classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")
integrated circuit memory
partial generator set
to use (the same thing) for multiple purposes
legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State
carrying a portable shrine with arms stretched out (i.e. without shouldering it)
hard-sectored disk
employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.)
paper put between newly completed prints to prevent the ink from smudging
three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization o...