Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
family crest
productive age
primary benchmark (surveying)
dumplings offered to the moon (on the 15th day of the 8th month and the 13th day of the 9th month)
distribution list (for assets after seizure, bankruptcy, etc.)
abstract side of things (such as personnel, skill, information; as opposed to physical things)
pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)
having been told something so often that one is fed up with it
(woman with) beautiful eyes and mouth
Self-Strengthening Movement (political reform movement in China during the late Qing dynasty)
there is unexpected good in what others have left behind
unselfishness
type of local militia in China most active during the Qing dynasty
divination based on laying out various items before a toddler and predicting his future based the items chosen
merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period
National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China)
national identification number system
heavy and chemical industries
death not caused by a violent crime (excl. dying of natural causes)
hiking notification form (registered with the police, etc. before undertaking a hike)
15th day of the New Year (when women would belatedly do their New Year's greetings or go back to their parents' homes; in Kyoto and Osaka)
Euphrasia insignis (species of eyebright)
law of equal division of rice fields (of ancient China)
thinly sliced salmon head cartilage (also whale etc.)
refusing to budge
study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)
to drag down
the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
principle of maximum entropy