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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
self-employed person
malaria therapy (formerly used to treat syphilis, etc.)
suffix added after a writer's pen name
perennation
at the time of writing
financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto)
flowers blooming in moonlight
painted bunting (Passerina ciris)
work, items, etc. carried over from earlier
diversion
tertian malaria (causing a fever that recurs every second day)
men's changing room (gym, etc.)
rotifer
gastrotrichs (members of a phylum of tiny bristled wormlike animals)
Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
to take (preventive) measures
someone who is suddenly quiet and meek
to let oneself be persuaded (by)
First Epistle to Timothy (book of the Bible)
you'll have to pay for it
Joel (book of the Bible)
beta version
to take advantage of the troubled times (of an ambitious adventurer)
foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships)
imaginary
creating a noun by affixing "ku" to the end of an inflectable word (e.g. "omowaku", "osoraku")
social differentiation
dong dang gui (aromatic herb similar to dong quai, Angelica acutiloba)
you'll have to pay for it
Higashiyama period (cultural and artistic period of the mid-Muromachi)