Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
despite appearances
to grow old
elementary and middle schools
sign
currently closed
man shall not live by bread alone
Institute of Technologists
small avalanche
Carnegie Mellon University
child who is very close to their grandfather
The Flying Dutchman (opera by Wagner, 1843)
Harvard University
Oxford University
Kyushu University (abbr)
one after another
revealing (information, a secret, etc.)
to use (as a tool) for one's own advantage
raising and lowering
Children's Day (national holiday; May 5)
palsy
Helicia cochinchinensis (species of flowering plant)
to pick out (with the fingers)
man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)
small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)
grater (esp. the variety used in Japanese cooking to grate foods very finely)
to be able to tell apart
no matter how lovingly raised, a foster child is not actually one's biological child
waiting to see one's opponent's move
various intimate services (e.g. massage) rendered by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform
mouth