Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
purple puffer (Takifugu porphyreus)
artifact spirit
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 Ryลiki (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)
Tsugaru dialect
to have a good eye (from having seen fine art, etc.)
to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight)
deep slumber (as if under a spell)
(proof of) confirmation
to drive mad