Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
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chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants)
to be open (to traffic)
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
nuclear bomb
fixed-amount (postal) savings
sealed letter
Manchukuo (Japanese Manchurian puppet state; 1932-1945)
pencil case
perpetual youth and longevity
selling separately
any red algae in the family Gelidiaceae (esp. Gelidium crinale)
closing (for the day; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.)
running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt)
acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
biographical writings
extraordinary
(raised) footpath between rice fields
boastful talk about one's love life
cold sweat
group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (incl. ex-convicts and vagrants)
meeting (face-to-face)
two guilty parties tried and punished together
man from eastern Japan (esp. Edo or elsewhere in the Kanto region)
to insinuate