Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
once-powerful nation now in decline
to call for someone's participation
home use
sociolect emphasizing the femininity of the speaker (esp. used by homosexual men)
Coralliidae (family of corals)
anyone can make a mistake
Internet Research Task Force
High-Speed TDM
New Ainu Law (aimed at promoting and protecting Ainu culture; 1997, 2019)
the Gospel according to John (book of the Bible)
marriage between two people who met over the Internet
to draw a line (between)
network addressing authority
euphemisms used by hunters, lumberjacks, etc. when in the wild
combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus
herpes simplex virus
style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall and worship hall share one roof, and are connected via an intermediate passageway
16,800,000-year period over which a human lifespan increases from ten years to 84,000 years (by one year per century) and then decreases back to ten (by one year per century)
parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)
classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")
application developer
integrated circuit memory
partial generator set
to use (the same thing) for multiple purposes
highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hลreki era onward)
legal wife of a regent, of the imperial adviser, or of an official at the Grand Council of State
dean
optical character reader
Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine)
carrying a portable shrine with arms stretched out (i.e. without shouldering it)