Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
Department of Justice (US)
soft rice (cooked in a pot)
erector pili (muscle fiber attached to a hair follicle)
young sweetfish
demodectic mange
dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)
smooth muscle
purple puffer (Takifugu porphyreus)
Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)
to be embarrassed for a reply
case that something major happens
Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871)
pensive (or worried) look on one's face
sixth-generation descendant
paiban (clapper made from several flat pieces of wood)
banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus)
to be at a loss for words
morin khuur (stringed musical instrument of Mongolian origin)
Minister of Defense
Japanese oak silkmoth (Antheraea yamamai)
Nihon Ryōiki (Heian-period collection of Buddhist stories)
to be (too) late getting married
anatomist
gene duplication
system of equations
abandoned castle
uncle
clerk of court
(crime of) assembling with dangerous weapons
tolerability (e.g. of a drug dose)