Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
to tell again and again
catch in one's hands
to win and advance to the next round
cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey
telephone number at which person without a phone can be reached
to finish writing
memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death
moisture absorbing
through ticket (e.g. rail, air)
having graduated from junior high school (as one's highest completed level of education)
joint committee of both houses
speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener
to rustle
chemical equation
bite (of a fish on a hook)
both people are superb in skill (and thus it is hard to rank them)
leavings of a meal
shifting (the burden) onto
banishment from one's residence as a form of judicial punishment
wages based on job evaluation
between meals
shell
maid-in-waiting in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)
attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with
trade liberalization
state-supported provincial temple (Nara period)
biting louse (any louse of order Mallophaga)
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
daimyo not sworn to support Tokugawa before the battle of Sekigahara (1600)
kindness begets kindness