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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
consumer's price
cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering
stomach acid that flows backwards into the mouth (due to acid reflux)
barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)
your countenance
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
infectious disease originating overseas entering the country through an infected traveller or goods
one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila)
multiculturalism
earth observation satellite
performance by two or more musicians playing similar instruments
democracy (as propounded by Sun Yat-sen)
special envelope for monetary gifts
paper treated with astringent persimmon juice
adopting a son-in-law into one's family
court-appointed attorney
Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)
neighborly relations
Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) similar to Dorian mode
with-data primitives
Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972)
gingivitis
polishing process
superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking
greens pickled in salt (mizuna, mustard leaves, etc.)
stretching pieces of a kimono on boards to dry after they have been washed and starched
Declaration of the Rights of Man (during the French Revolution; 1789)
war of attrition