JLPT Kanji Level 3

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The Japanese Language Proficiency Test, or JLPT, is a standardized criterion-referenced test to evaluate and certify the Japanese language proficiency of non-native speakers. It is held twice a year in East Asia and once a year in other regions. The JLPT has four levels, with Level 4 the most basic and Level 1 the most difficult.

力【ちから】 force; strength; might; vigour (vigor); energy / capability; ability; proficiency; capacity; faculty / efficacy; effect / effort; endeavours (endeavors); exertions / power; authority; influence; good offices; agency / support; help; aid; assistance / stress; emphasis / means; resources
理【り】 reason; principle; logic / general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) / (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
旅【たび】 travel; trip; journey
料【りょう】 fee; charge; rate / material
灘【なだ】 open sea
用【よう】 business; task; errand; engagement / use; purpose / for the use of ...; used for ...; made for ... / call of nature; excretion
夕【ゆう】 evening
有【ゆう】 existence / possession; having / limited company
目【め】 eye; eyeball / eyesight; sight; vision / look; stare; glance / an experience / viewpoint / stitch; texture; weave / ordinal number suffix / somewhat; -ish
問い【とい】 question; query
夜【よる】 evening; night
野【の】 plain; field / hidden (structural) member / wild / lacking a political post
明【みょう】 vidya (wisdom) / mantra / the coming (4th of July, etc.)
味【あじ】 flavor; flavour; taste / charm; style / experience / smart; clever; witty; strange
妹【いもうと】 younger sister
歩み【あゆみ】 walking / progress; advance
方【かた】 direction; way / person; lady; gentleman / method of; manner of; way of / care of ... / person in charge of ... / side (e.g. "on my mother's side")
文【ぶん】 sentence / composition; text; writings / the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature / statement
別【べつ】 distinction; difference; different; another; particular; separate; extra; exception
風【かぜ】 wind; breeze; draught; draft / manner; behaviour; behavior / cold; influenza
服【ふく】 clothes (esp. Western clothes) / counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
物【もの】 thing; object; article; stuff; substance / one's things; possessions; property; belongings / things; something; anything; everything; nothing / quality / reason; the way of things / used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen / item classified as ...; item related to ...; work of ... / cause of ...; cause for ... / somehow; somewhat; for some reason / really; truly
不【ふ】 un-; non-; negative prefix
発【はつ】 departure; departing (from ...); departing (at time ...) / sending; sent (by ...); sent (at ...) / engine / counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.; counter for bullets, bombs, etc.; counter for blows (punches)
飯【めし】 cooked rice / meal; food / one's livelihood
病【やまい】 illness; disease / bad habit; weakness; fault
品【しな】 article; item; thing; goods; stock / quality / flirtatiousness; coquetry
肉【にく】 flesh / meat / the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) / thickness / ink pad
動【どう】 motion; change; confusion
同【どう】 the same; the said; ibid.
堂【どう】 temple; shrine; chapel / hall / company / front room
道【みち】 road; path; street; lane; passage / route; way / distance; journey / road (e.g. to victory); course / way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles / teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma / field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality / means; way; method
冬【ふゆ】 winter
答え【こたえ】 answer; reply; response; solution
度【たび】 time (three times, each time, etc.); times
朝【あさ】 morning
町【まち】 town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood / street; road / 109.09 m / 0.99 hectares / downtown; main street
鳥【とり】 bird / bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
通【つう】 connoisseur; authority / counter for letters, notes, documents, etc.
弟【おとうと】 younger brother; little brother; kid brother / pupil; apprentice
店【みせ】 store; shop; establishment; restaurant
くるり《転》 turning around (once) / suddenly; abruptly / completely (wrapped in something); quickly (unwrapping something) / beautiful, round (eyes) / flail (for threshing grain)
田【た】 rice field
注【ちゅう】 annotation; explanatory note; comment
昼【ひる】 noon; midday / daytime / lunch
知【ち】 wisdom / jnana (higher knowledge)
地【ち】 earth; ground; land; soil / place / territory / bottom (of a package, book, etc.) / earth (one of the five elements)
茶【ちゃ】 tea / tea plant (Camellia sinensis) / tea preparation; making tea / brown / mockery
着【ちゃく】 counter for suits of clothing / arriving at ...
世【よ】 world; society; age; generation
台【だい】 stand; rack; table; bench; podium; pedestal; platform; stage / support; holder; rack / counter for machines, incl. vehicles / setting (e.g. in jewellery) / level (e.g. price level); range (e.g. after physical units); period (of time, e.g. a decade of one's life) / elevated area / viewing platform / dish tray / meal / tall building; tower
題【だい】 title; subject; theme; topic / problem (on a test); question / counter for questions (on a test)
貸し【かし】 loan; lending / favor; favour; debt; obligation / creditor; method of lending; credit side
体【からだ】 body / torso; trunk / build; physique; constitution / health / corpse; dead body
早【はや】 already; now; by this time
走【そう】 run; race
足【あし】 foot / leg / gait / pace / bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji / means of transportation / money; coin
族【ぞく】 tribe; clan; band / (taxonomical) tribe / group (of the periodic table)
多【た】 multi-
赤【あか】 red; crimson; scarlet / red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange) / Red (i.e. communist) / red light (traffic) / red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red / complete; total; perfect; obvious / copper
切【せつ】 eager; earnest; ardent; kind; keen; acute
正【せい】 (logical) true; regular / 10^40; ten thousand undecillion / original / positive; greater than zero
青【あお】 blue; azure / green / green light (traffic) / black (horse coat color) / immature; unripe; young
世【よ】 world; society; age; generation
図【ず】 drawing; picture; diagram; figure; illustration; chart; graph / sight; scene
色【いろ】 colour; color; hue; tint; tinge; shade / complexion; skin colour; skin color / look (on one's face); expression / appearance; air; feeling / personality; character / tone (of one's voice, etc.); tune; sound; ring / love; lust; sensuality; love affair / lover; paramour / beauty; sexiness; physical appeal / kind; type; variety
心【こころ】 mind; heart; spirit / the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
新【しん】 new; neo- / Gregorian calendar / Xin (dynasty of China)
真【しん】 truth; reality; genuineness / seriousness / logical TRUE / printed style writing / star performer
親【おや】 parent; parents; mother and father / dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker / founder; inventor / (pet) owner / key; parent (organization); main / ancestor; forefather
場【ば】 place; spot; space / field; discipline; sphere; realm / occasion; situation / scene (of a play, movie, etc.) / session (of the stock market) / area in which cards are laid out (in a card game) / round (i.e. east, south, etc.) / field / field (gestalt psychology)
少【しょう】 small; little; few
春【はる】 spring; springtime / New Year / prime (of one's life, etc.) / adolescence; puberty / sexuality
週【しゅう】 week
集【しゅう】 collection; compilation
住【じゅう】 dwelling; living
重【え】 -fold; -ply
秋【あき】 autumn; fall
終わり【おわり】 the end
手【て】 hand; arm / forepaw; foreleg / handle / hand; worker; help / trouble; care; effort / means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship / hand; handwriting / kind; type; sort / one's hands; one's possession / ability to cope / hand (of cards) / direction / move (in go, shogi, etc.)
主人【しゅじん】 head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady / one's husband / (one's) employer; (one's) master / host; hostess
社【やしろ】 shrine (usually Shinto)
者【もの】 person
自【じ】 self- / from ... / this ... (in contrast to some other ...); aforementioned
室【しつ】 room / wife (of someone of high rank) / scabbard / Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
質【しつ】 quality; value / nature; inherent quality; character / logical quality
こと《事》 thing; matter / incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis / circumstances; situation; state of affairs / work; business; affair / after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to / nominalizing suffix / pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... / alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
字【じ】 character (i.e. kanji) / hand-writing; penmanship / the ... word (i.e. "the L word" = "love")
死【し】 death; decease / death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation) / (an) out
私【わたし】 I; me / private affairs; personal matter; secrecy / selfishness
紙【かみ】 paper
姉【あね】 older sister; elder sister
仕【し】 official; civil service
使【し】 messenger / police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods) / klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)
作【さく】 work (e.g. of art); production / harvest; cultivation; farming; crop; yield / technique
黒【くろ】 black / black go stone / guilt; guilty person
考【こう】 thought / report on one's investigation into ... / deceased father
君【きみ】 you; buddy; pal / monarch; ruler; sovereign; (one's) master
口【くち】 mouth / opening; hole; gap; orifice / mouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece / gate; door; entrance; exit / speaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip) / taste; palate / mouth (to feed) / opening (i.e. vacancy); available position / invitation; summons / kind; sort; type / opening (i.e. beginning) / counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), and swords
匠【たくみ】 workman; artisan; mechanic; carpenter / craft; skill / means; idea
言【げん】 word; remark; statement
古【いにしえ】 antiquity; ancient times
計【けい】 plan / meter; measuring device / (in) total; total (of)
建て【たて】 contract; commitment
犬【いぬ】 dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris) / snoop (i.e. a detective, a spy, etc.) / loser; asshole / counterfeit; inferior; useless; wasteful
試し【ためし】 trial; test
元【もと】 origin; source / base; basis; foundation; root / cause / ingredient; material / (somebody's) side; (somebody's) location / original cost (or capital, principal, etc.) / (plant) root; (tree) trunk / first section of a waka / counter for blades of grass, tree trunks, etc., and for falcons (in falconry) / handle (chopsticks, brush, etc.); grip
銀【ぎん】 silver (Ag) / silver coin; money / silver medal / silver colour; silver color / bank / silver general
空【そら】 sky; the air; the heavens / weather / far-off place; distant place / state of mind; feeling / (from) memory; (by) heart / falsehood; lie / somehow; vaguely / fake
兄【あに】 elder brother; older brother
業【ごう】 karma (i.e. actions committed in a former life)
強【きょう】 a little over; a little more than / powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful
魚【さかな】 fish
都【みやこ】 capital; metropolis; seat of government / capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light) / location of the Imperial Palace
牛【うし】 cattle (Bos taurus); cow; bull; ox; calf / beef / Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
起こり【おこり】 source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis
急【きゅう】 sudden; abrupt; unexpected / urgent; pressing / steep; sharp; precipitous / rapid; swift; fast / emergency; crisis; danger / urgency; hurrying; haste / (in gagaku or noh) end of a song
館【やかた】 mansion; palace; manor house; castle / nobleman; noblewoman; dignitary / cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.)
漢【おとこ】 man among men; man's man
海【うみ】 sea; ocean; waters
境【さかい】 border; boundary / turning point; watershed / area; region; spot; space; environment / psychological state; mental state / cognitive object; something perceptible by the sense organs or mind
楽【らく】 comfort; ease / raku pottery
運【うん】 fortune; luck
花房【はなぶさ】 calyx; corolla
駅【えき】 railway station; train station / staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan)
屋【や】 (something) shop / somebody who sells (something) or works as (something) / somebody with a (certain) personality trait / house / roof
音【おと】 sound; noise; report / note / fame / Chinese-derived character reading
夏【なつ】 summer
家【いえ】 house; residence; dwelling / family; household / lineage; family name
歌【うた】 song / classical Japanese poetry (esp. tanka) / modern poetry
花【はな】 flower; blossom; bloom; petal / cherry blossom / beauty / blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms) / ikebana / hanafuda / (the) best / glorious; lovely
画【かく】 stroke (of a kanji, etc.)
会【かい】 meeting; assembly; party / association; club
悪【あく】 evil; wickedness
安【やす】 cheap / rash; thoughtless; careless; indiscreet; frivolous
意【い】 feelings; thoughts / meaning
医【い】 medicine; the healing art; healing; curing; doctor
員【いん】 member
飲【いん】 drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol); drink; drinking party
院【いん】 house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.) / graduate school; postgraduate school / institution (often medical); institutional building; government office / sub-temple; minor temple building; temple; cloister / imperial palace / title bestowed on empresses, princesses, etc. / former (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.); late