Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
silicon carbide (SiC)
mercy killing (euthanasia performed to end someone's suffering, but without consent)
kanji "going man" radical (radical 60)
Japanese calendar's six labels, indicating how auspicious each day is
being exceptionally stingy
Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
bibliography
Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
standard tables of food composition
large deer
Japan-specific seasonal markers signaling changes in the season (e.g. the start of the rainy season, typhoon days, changing of the seasons) used in addition to the Chinese 24 solar terms
kanji radical 79 at right
front company (for an organized crime operation)
textbook approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
word root (smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)
collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat in the New Year)
auxiliary shrine (dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine)
abductor
Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)
building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the lowest ground
Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
small, thin fabric belt worn over the kimono and under the obi in order to protect the fabric
twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities
kanji "moon" radical at left (usually classified as radical 130)
four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)
life jacket
to be excited
unrefined sap of the lacquer tree
"minor heat" solar term (approx. July 7)