JLPT N3 Words

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読み【よみ】 reading
日付【ひづけ】 date; dating
板【いた】 board; plank / sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); pane; slab / cutting board; chopping board / chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook / stage (i.e. at a theatre)
皮【かわ】 skin; hide; pelt; fur / rind; peel; husk; bark / shell; sheath; wrapping / mask (hiding one's true nature); seeming
氷【こおり】 ice / shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
不幸【ふこう】 unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; disaster; accident / death (usu. of a relative); bereavement
不利【ふり】 disadvantage; handicap; unfavorable position
文句【もんく】 complaint; grumbling; objection / phrase; words; expression
別れ【わかれ】 parting; separation; farewell; (lateral) branch; fork; offshoot; division; section
抱える【かかえる】 to hold or carry under or in the arms / to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.) / to employ; to engage; to hire
冒険【ぼうけん】 adventure; venture / venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger; hazard; risk
面倒【めんどう】 trouble; bother / trouble; difficulty / care; attention
流す【ながす】 to drain; to pour; to spill; to shed (blood, tears) / to wash away / to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to broadcast; to beam / to cruise (e.g. taxi) / to float; to set adrift / to call off (a meeting, etc.) / to exile; to banish
列【れつ】 row; line; file; column; queue; rank; procession / company (of someone); group; ranks / sequence / counter for rows
姉妹【しまい】 sisters
様々【さまざま】 varied; various
向い【むかい】 facing; opposite; across the street; other side
よい《良い》 good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable / sufficient (can be used to turn down an offer); ready; prepared / profitable (e.g. deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial / OK
氏【し】 Mr; Mrs; Ms; Miss / clan / he; him / counter for people
愛情【あいじょう】 love; affection
偉大【いだい】 great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
運【うん】 fortune; luck
嫁【よめ】 wife; bride / (one's) daughter-in-law
菓子【かし】 confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
回【かい】 counter for occurrences / a time; an instance / inning (baseball); round; game / episode; chapter; instalment / Hui (people) / Islam
感じる【かんじる】 to feel; to sense; to experience
奇妙【きみょう】 strange; queer; curious
救助【きゅうじょ】 relief; aid; rescue
局【きょく】 bureau; department / office (e.g. post, telephone); broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio); channel; exchange / affair; situation / game (of go, shogi, etc.)
金庫【きんこ】 safe; strongbox; cashbox; vault; strongroom / depository; cash office; treasury; provider of funds
繰り返す【くりかえす】 to repeat; to do something over again
語る【かたる】 to talk about; to speak of; to tell; to narrate / to recite; to chant / to indicate; to show
時刻【じこく】 instant; time; moment
守る【まもる】 to protect; to guard; to defend / to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe; to obey; to follow
渋滞【じゅうたい】 congestion (e.g. traffic); delay; stagnation
小屋【こや】 hut; cabin; shed; (animal) pen / small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; circus tent; booth / one's own house
信仰【しんこう】 (religious) faith; belief; creed
図書【としょ】 books
盛り【さかり】 peak (e.g. of cherry blossom season); height (e.g. of summer) / prime (of one's life); one's best days / rutting; being in heat
石炭【せきたん】 coal
絶滅【ぜつめつ】 extinction; extermination / eradication; stamping out; wiping out
釣り【つり】 fishing; angling / change (e.g. for a purchase) / trolling; writing false posts online
典型【てんけい】 type; pattern; model; epitome; exemplar; archetype; perfect example
納得【なっとく】 consent; assent; agreement / understanding; comprehension; grasp
破産【はさん】 bankruptcy; insolvency
背【せい】 height; stature
批評【ひひょう】 criticism; review; commentary
革【かわ】 leather
筆【ふで】 writing brush
服装【ふくそう】 garments; attire
物理【ぶつり】 physics; law of nature
味方【みかた】 friend; ally; supporter / taking sides with; supporting; standing by; backing up
無事【ぶじ】 safety; peace; quietness
黙る【だまる】 to be silent; to say nothing
裸【はだか】 nakedness; nudity / bareness; nakedness; baldness; being uncovered / being penniless / concealing nothing; openness
灯【ひ】 light; lamp; torch
科目【かもく】 (school) subject; curriculum; course
幸せ【しあわせ】 happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
集まり【あつまり】 gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
続き【つづき】 sequel; continuation; (also suffix) continuation (in time and space); second series; succession; spell
悪魔【あくま】 devil; demon; fiend / Satan; the Devil / Māra; evil spirits or forces that hinder one's path to enlightenment
永遠【えいえん】 eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
横断【おうだん】 crossing; traversing / traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west) / cutting horizontally
穏やか【おだやか】 calm; gentle; quiet
快適【かいてき】 pleasant; agreeable; comfortable
外出【がいしゅつ】 going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
学問【がくもん】 scholarship; study; learning / discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
感心【かんしん】 admiration; being impressed / admirable; praiseworthy / astonishment; being appalled
帰宅【きたく】 returning home
技師【ぎし】 engineer; technician
逆【ぎゃく】 reverse; opposite / converse (of a hypothesis, etc.) / inverse (function)
吸収【きゅうしゅう】 absorption; suction; attraction
区別【くべつ】 distinction; differentiation; classification
撃つ【うつ】 to shoot (at) / to attack; to defeat; to destroy; to avenge
欠席【けっせき】 absence; non-attendance
月曜【げつよう】 Monday
後者【こうしゃ】 the latter
語学【ごがく】 study of language; linguistics / foreign language study
公平【こうへい】 fairness; impartiality; justice; objectivity
皿【さら】 plate; dish; platter; disc / serving; helping; course / kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
自慢【じまん】 pride; boast
手間【てま】 time; labour; labor
城【しろ】 castle
食卓【しょくたく】 dining table
相続【そうぞく】 succession; inheritance
断る【ことわる】 to refuse; to reject; to dismiss; to turn down; to decline / to inform; to give notice; to tell in advance / to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
通学【つうがく】 commuting to school; school commute
泥【どろ】 mud; slush; (wet) dirt; mire / thief
当てる【あてる】 to hit / to expose / to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to put against; to hold on; to hold against / to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class) / to guess (an answer) / to make a hit (e.g. in a lottery)
毒【どく】 poison; toxicant / harm; evil influence / ill will; spite; malice / abusive language
望み【のぞみ】 wish; desire; hope / prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
友情【ゆうじょう】 friendship; fellowship; camaraderie
誘う【さそう】 to invite; to ask (someone to do); to call (for); to take (someone) along / to tempt; to lure; to entice; to seduce / to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy); to provoke
翼【つばさ】 wing / Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) / counter for birds or bird wings
係【かかり】 charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk / connection; linking
愛する【あいする】 to love
握手【あくしゅ】 handshake
鋭い【するどい】 sharp (blade); pointed / sharp (pain); stabbing; cutting (remark); stinging; pointed (question or look); screeching (noise) / perceptive; keen; quick (mind); astute; shrewd; discerning / nimble; agile; quick
炎【ほのお】 flame; blaze / flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
勘定【かんじょう】 calculation; computation; counting; reckoning; count / bill; check; account; payment (of a bill); settlement (of an account) / consideration; allowance
苦痛【くつう】 pain; agony; bitterness
交際【こうさい】 company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance
幸福【こうふく】 happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
高価【こうか】 high price
穀物【こくもつ】 grain; cereal; corn
婚約【こんやく】 engagement; betrothal
混雑【こんざつ】 congestion; crush; crowding; jam / confusion; disorder
失望【しつぼう】 disappointment; despair
順番【じゅんばん】 turn (in line); order of things; sequential order
承知【しょうち】 knowledge; awareness / consent; acceptance; assent; admitting; compliance; agreement; acknowledgment; acknowledgement / forgiving; pardoning; excusing
食物【しょくもつ】 food; foodstuff
舌【した】 tongue / tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
中古【ちゅうこ】 used; second-hand; old / Middle Ages
徹夜【てつや】 staying up all night
土産【みやげ】 present; souvenir
頭痛【ずつう】 headache
鍋【なべ】 saucepan; pot / stew; hot pot
日光【にっこう】 sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams
配達【はいたつ】 delivery; distribution
発達【はったつ】 development; growth
美人【びじん】 beautiful woman
便【びん】 flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); service / mail; post; letter / opportunity; chance
宝石【ほうせき】 gem; jewel; precious stone
霧【きり】 fog; mist / spray
木曜【もくよう】 Thursday
話し合う【はなしあう】 to discuss; to talk together
永久【えいきゅう】 eternity; permanence; perpetuity / Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
雷【かみなり】 lightning; thunder; thunderbolt / god of thunder; god of lightning / anger; fit of anger
覆う【おおう】 to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
越える【こえる】 to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); to go beyond; to go past / to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
乗せる【のせる】 to place on (something) / to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to pick up; to help on board / to load (luggage); to carry; to take on board / to send out (on the airwaves, etc.) / to deceive; to take for a ride / to (sing) along with (musical accompaniment) / to let (someone) take part / to excite (someone) / to publish (an article); to run (an ad)
見舞い【みまい】 visiting ill or distressed people; writing get-well letters / get-well gifts; get-well letters / expression of sympathy; expression of concern; enquiry; inquiry
隠す【かくす】 to hide; to conceal
活気【かっき】 energy; liveliness
勘【かん】 perception; intuition; the sixth sense
居間【いま】 living room (Western style)
叫ぶ【さけぶ】 to shout; to cry; to scream; to shriek; to yell; to exclaim / to clamor (for or against); to clamour (for or against)
句【く】 section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph / phrase / verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry) / haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc. / maxim; saying; idiom; expression
敬意【けいい】 respect; honour; honor
欠点【けってん】 fault; defect; flaw; weak point; weakness; shortcoming; drawback / failure (in an examination); failing grade
考慮【こうりょ】 consideration; taking into account
克服【こくふく】 conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over
骨折【こっせつ】 bone fracture
手伝い【てつだい】 helper; assistant / help
受け取る【うけとる】 to receive; to get; to accept / to take; to interpret; to understand
週間【しゅうかん】 week
奨学金【しょうがくきん】 scholarship; stipend; bursary / student loan
小麦【こむぎ】 wheat
清潔【せいけつ】 clean; hygienic; sanitary / pure; virtuous; immaculate
生地【きじ】 cloth; fabric; material; texture / dough; batter / inherent quality; one's true character; one's true colours / unglazed pottery / skin with no make-up
節約【せつやく】 economising; saving
注【ちゅう】 annotation; explanatory note; comment
駐車【ちゅうしゃ】 parking (e.g. car)
笛【ふえ】 flute; fife; pipe; recorder; flageolet; shakuhachi; clarinet / whistle
刀【かたな】 (single-edged) sword; katana / dagger; knife / scalpel / chisel; burin; graver / knife money; knife-shaped commodity money used in Zhou dynasty China
飛び出す【とびだす】 to jump out; to rush out; to fly out / to appear (suddenly) / to protrude; to project / to butt in
歩道【ほどう】 footpath; walkway; sidewalk
方【ほう】 direction; way; side; area (in a particular direction) / side (of an argument, etc.); one's part / type; category / field (of study, etc.) / indicates one side of a comparison / way; method; manner; means / length (of each side of a square)
望む【のぞむ】 to desire / to wish for; to expect / to see; to command (a view of)
要するに【ようするに】 in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
嵐【あらし】 storm; tempest / storm; hullaballoo; uproar; winds (e.g. of change)
行き【ゆき】 the way there; outbound leg; outbound trip; departing leg / bound for ... / outbound ticket
扱う【あつかう】 to deal with (a person); to treat; to handle; to take care of; to entertain / to deal with (a problem); to handle; to manage / to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to work / to deal in; to sell / to cover (a topic); to treat; to discuss; to take up / to treat A as B / to mediate (an argument) / to be too much for one; to find unmanageable / to gossip
移す【うつす】 to change; to swap; to substitute; to transfer / to change the object of one's interest or focus / to spend or take time / to infect / to permeate something with the smell or colour of something / to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
衣服【いふく】 clothes
楽【らく】 comfort; ease / raku pottery
掲示【けいじ】 notice; bulletin; post; posting; placard
迎え【むかえ】 meeting; greeting; welcome
食欲【しょくよく】 appetite (for food)
真っ赤【まっか】 bright red; deep red; flushed (of face) / downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter
診察【しんさつ】 medical examination
生き物【いきもの】 living thing; animal
前者【ぜんしゃ】 the former
双子【ふたご】 twins; twin
頂上【ちょうじょう】 top; summit; peak
豆【まめ】 legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, such as beans, peas, pulses, etc.); beans; peas / soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy / female genitalia (esp. the clitoris) / kidney / miniature; tiny / child
不思議【ふしぎ】 wonderful; marvelous; strange; incredible; amazing; curious; miraculous; mysterious
物事【ものごと】 things; everything
粉【こな】 flour; meal; powder; dust
塀【へい】 wall / fence
便り【たより】 news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter
泡【あわ】 bubble; foam; froth; head on beer
わた《綿》 cotton plant (Gossypium spp.) / batting; wadding; padding
毛布【もうふ】 blanket
夜中【よなか】 middle of the night; dead of night
商人【しょうにん】 merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
梅雨【つゆ】 rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July) / rain during the rainy season
明かり【あかり】 light; illumination; glow; gleam / lamp; light
空き【あき】 space; room; gap; emptiness / vacancy; opening; empty seat / free time; time to spare / disuse; unused thing
学【がく】 learning; scholarship; study; erudition; knowledge; education / study of ...; -ology; -ics
意志【いし】 will; volition; intention; intent; determination
越す【こす】 to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across / to go over (e.g. with audience) / to pass time (e.g. a winter) / to surpass; to be better than; to exceed / to move house / to go; to come
さる《猿》 monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate / sly person / idiot; hick / sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) / clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook / bathhouse prostitute
我慢【がまん】 patience; endurance; perseverance; tolerance; self-control; self-denial
外す【はずす】 to remove; to take off; to detach; to unfasten; to undo / to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to exclude; to expel / to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from; to step out; to slip away / to dodge (a question, blow, etc.); to evade; to sidestep; to avoid (e.g. peak season) / to miss (a target, chance, punch, etc.)
疑う【うたがう】 to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
勤め【つとめ】 service; duty; business; responsibility; task / Buddhist religious services
偶然【ぐうぜん】 coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity / by chance; unexpectedly; accidentally / contingency (philosophy)
表す【あらわす】 to represent; to signify; to stand for / to reveal; to show; to display / to express / to make widely known
構う【かまう】 to mind; to care about; to be concerned about; to have a regard for / to be an issue; to matter; to create inconvenience / to keep company; to care for; to look after; to entertain; to pay attention to; to spend time with / to interfere with; to meddle in / to tease / to banish; to prohibit
芝生【しばふ】 lawn
邪魔【じゃま】 hindrance; obstacle; nuisance / to visit (somebody's home) / demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
したがって《従って》 therefore; consequently; accordingly
書物【しょもつ】 book; volume
親友【しんゆう】 close friend; bosom (old, intimate) friend; buddy; crony; chum
素晴らしい【すばらしい】 wonderful; splendid; magnificent
体温【たいおん】 temperature; body temperature (human, animal)
題【だい】 title; subject; theme; topic / problem (on a test); question / counter for questions (on a test)
単語【たんご】 word; vocabulary; (usually) single-character word
道徳【どうとく】 morals
謎【なぞ】 riddle; puzzle; enigma; mystery / enigmatic; mysterious
破る【やぶる】 to tear; to rip; to break; to destroy / to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach / to defeat; to beat / to break (e.g. silence); to disturb (e.g. peace); to shatter (e.g. dream); to disrupt; to spoil / to violate (e.g. rule); to break (e.g. promise); to infringe / to break (a record)
無視【むし】 disregarding; ignoring
夜明け【よあけ】 dawn; daybreak
悪口【あっこう】 abuse; insult; slander; evil speaking; bad mouth
かわいそう《可哀相》 poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
気づく【きづく】 to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize; to realise
食う【くう】 to eat / to live; to make a living; to survive / to bite; to sting (as insects do) / to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of / to encroach on; to eat into; to consume / to defeat a superior; to threaten a position / to consume time and-or resources / to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event) / to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
匂い【におい】 odour; odor; scent; smell; stench / aura; whiff; smacks of ...; sense; flavour; flavor
段【だん】 step; stair; (flight of) steps; (row of) stitches; columns (of print) / grade; rank; level / counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.) / dan; senior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
老い【おい】 old age; old person; the old; the aged
お前【おまえ】 you / presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
哀れ【あわれ】 pity; sorrow; grief; misery; compassion; pathos / pitiable; pitiful; pathetic; miserable / alack; alas
握る【にぎる】 to clasp; to grasp; to grip; to clutch / to make (nigirizushi, rice ball, etc.); to form; to press into shape; to mold; to mould / to seize (power, etc.); to take hold of
異なる【ことなる】 to differ; to vary; to disagree
育つ【そだつ】 to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
引用【いんよう】 quotation; citation; reference
羽【はね】 feather; plume; down / wing / blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.) / shuttlecock / arrow feathers
嘘【うそ】 lie; fib; falsehood; untruth / mistake; error / unwise move; bad decision / No way!; Unbelievable!; Really?!
噂【うわさ】 rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
餌【えさ】 (animal) feed; fodder; pet food / bait; lure; enticement
横切る【よこぎる】 to cross (e.g. road); to traverse
王様【おうさま】 king
沖【おき】 open sea
恩【おん】 favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
くださる《下さる》 to give; to confer; to bestow / to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour; to favor
加える【くわえる】 to add; to add up; to sum up; to append; to annex / to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to pick up / to include; to count in; to let join / to inflict (damage); to deal; to give
加わる【くわわる】 to be added to; to be appended / to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate / to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence); to grow; to gather (speed) / to be applied (e.g. heat, pressure); to be exerted
加減【かげん】 degree; extent; amount; balance; state; condition / (health) condition; state of health / adjustment; moderation; regulation / addition and subtraction / slight sign of ...; slight state of ... / just right for ...
火曜【かよう】 Tuesday
稼ぐ【かせぐ】 to earn (income); to make (money) / to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to play (for time) / to work hard (at one's job); to labor; to labour; to toil
過ごす【すごす】 to pass (time); to spend / to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol) / to take care of; to support / to overdo; to do too much / to ... without acting on it
回す【まわす】 to turn; to rotate; to gyrate / to circulate; to send around / to surround / to put something to a new use (e.g. leftovers) / ... around (e.g. to chase someone around) / to dial (e.g. telephone number) / to invest / to gang-rape
咳【せき】 cough; coughing; tussis
害【がい】 injury; harm; evil influence; damage
確かめる【たしかめる】 to ascertain; to check; to make sure
覚ます【さます】 to awaken; to arouse from sleep / to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of) / to sober up / to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil
覚める【さめる】 to wake; to wake up / to become sober; to sober up; to regain consciousness (e.g. after anaesthesia) / to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
学ぶ【まなぶ】 to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
学期【がっき】 school term; semester
割る【わる】 to divide / to cut; to halve; to separate; to split; to rip / to break; to crack; to smash / to dilute / to fall below / to discount / to step over (a line, etc.)
刈る【かる】 to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear; to reap; to harvest
完了【かんりょう】 completion; conclusion / perfect (tense, form, aspect)
関する【かんする】 to concern; to be related
含む【ふくむ】 to contain; to comprise; to have; to hold; to include; to embrace / to hold in the mouth / to bear in mind; to understand; to harbor (grudge, etc.); to harbour / to express (emotion, etc.); to imply
願う【ねがう】 to desire; to wish; to hope / to beg; to request; to implore; to pray / to have something done for oneself
器用【きよう】 skilful; skillfull; adroit; dexterous; dextrous; deft; nimble; handy / clever; shrewd; ingenious
機嫌【きげん】 humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits / safety; health; well-being; one's situation / in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry; chipper
気に入る【きにいる】 to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy
気の毒【きのどく】 pitiful; unfortunate; poor; miserable; wretched / unpardonable; regrettable
記入【きにゅう】 entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.); filling in; filling out
起こる【おこる】 to occur; to happen
逆らう【さからう】 to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
及ぼす【およぼす】 to exert; to cause; to exercise
救う【すくう】 to rescue from; to help out of; to save
去る【さる】 to leave; to go away / to pass; to elapse / to be distant / to send away; to drive off; to divorce / to (do) completely / last ... (e.g. "last April")
居眠り【いねむり】 nodding off (while sitting); dozing
強調【きょうちょう】 emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point
おそらく《恐らく》 perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say
恐ろしい【おそろしい】 terrible; dreadful; terrifying; frightening; frightened / surprising; startling; tremendous; amazing
狂う【くるう】 to go mad / to get out of order; to go amiss
苦しい【くるしい】 painful; difficult; tough; hard / distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position) / straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling / strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched / hard to do; unpleasant
苦しむ【くるしむ】 to suffer; to groan; to be worried
経つ【たつ】 to pass (of time); to elapse
決心【けっしん】 determination; resolution
券【けん】 ticket; coupon; bond; certificate
嫌う【きらう】 to hate; to dislike; to loathe
見当【けんとう】 estimate; guess; conjecture; aim / direction; bearings / registration mark (printing) / approximately; about; around
賢い【かしこい】 wise; clever; smart
軒【のき】 eaves / narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
減らす【へらす】 to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
減る【へる】 to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
現れる【あらわれる】 to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to come out; to embody; to materialize; to materialise / to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
語【ご】 language / word
好む【このむ】 to like; to prefer
幸い【さいわい】 happiness; blessedness; luck; fortune; felicity / luckily; fortunately
さらに《更に》 furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
硬貨【こうか】 coin / hard currency
行儀【ぎょうぎ】 manners; behavior; behaviour
合図【あいず】 sign; signal; cue
黒板【こくばん】 blackboard
今に【いまに】 before long; even now
鎖【くさり】 chain; chains
作物【さくもつ】 produce (e.g. agricultural); crops
伺う【うかがう】 to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told / to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior) / to visit / to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)
指す【さす】 to point / to nominate; to select someone; to specify some person / to identify; to indicate; to point out / to play (a game of shogi); to move (a piece) / to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance)
支度【したく】 preparation; arrangements
至る【いたる】 to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to attain / to lead to (a place); to get to / in the extreme case of / to come; to arrive; to result in
試し【ためし】 trial; test
試す【ためす】 to attempt; to test; to try out
飼う【かう】 to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
似合う【にあう】 to suit; to match; to become; to be like
次第【しだい】 depending on / as soon as; immediately (upon) / in accordance with / order; program; programme; precedence / circumstances; course of events; reason
辞める【やめる】 to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
取り上げる【とりあげる】 to pick up / to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take up (a topic, complaint, etc.); to listen to; to deal with; to feature / to take away; to confiscate; to deprive (someone) of; to revoke / to deliver (a baby) / to collect (taxes)
手品【てじな】 magic (illusion); conjuring; magic trick; conjuring trick; sleight of hand
従う【したがう】 to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow; to observe; to conform to; to yield to / to follow (a person); to accompany; to go with / to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign) / to serve (as); to engage in (work)
祝う【いわう】 to congratulate; to celebrate; to observe (a festival)
できるだけ《出来るだけ》 as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
述べる【のべる】 to state; to express; to mention
書斎【しょさい】 study; library; den; home office; reading room
助ける【たすける】 to save; to rescue / to help; to assist / to aid; to contribute (financially) / to facilitate; to stimulate
上京【じょうきょう】 proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
上達【じょうたつ】 improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress / communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank
上等【じょうとう】 superior; first-class; excellent; top quality / (that's) just fine!; bring it on!
譲る【ゆずる】 to hand over; to transfer; to turn over; to assign; to convey; to bequeath / to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way / to yield; to concede; to give ground; to surrender / to sell / to postpone; to put off; to defer
尻【しり】 buttocks; behind; rump; bottom / undersurface; bottom / last place; end / consequence
伸びる【のびる】 to stretch; to extend; to lengthen; to grow (of hair, height, grass, etc.) / to straighten out; to be flattened; to become smooth / to spread (of paint, cream, etc.) / to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend / to lose elasticity; to become slack; to become soggy (e.g. noodles) / to make progress; to develop; to expand; to increase; to improve / to be exhausted; to be groggy; to pass out; to collapse / to be prolonged (meeting, life span, etc.); to be extended (e.g. deadline); to lengthen (e.g. of the days) / to be postponed; to be delayed; to be put off
信じる【しんじる】 to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
振る【ふる】 to wave; to shake; to swing / to sprinkle; to throw (dice) / to cast (actor); to allocate (work) / to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump / to abandon; to give up; to ruin / to add kana indicating a reading of a word / to slightly change headings; to change directions / to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct / to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine) / to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic / to replace; to substitute / to set up a joke for somebody else
申し込む【もうしこむ】 to apply for; to make an application; to propose (marriage); to offer (mediation); to make an overture (of peace); to challenge; to lodge (objections); to request (an interview); to subscribe for; to book; to reserve
申し訳【もうしわけ】 apology; excuse
真剣【しんけん】 serious; earnest / real sword (as opposed to unsharpened or wooden practice weapon)
真似【まね】 imitating; copying; mimicry / behavior; behaviour; action; conduct
真面目【まじめ】 serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
親しい【したしい】 close (e.g. friend); familiar; friendly; intimate / familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one) / close (relatives); closely related
親戚【しんせき】 relative; relation; kin
人ごみ【ひとごみ】 crowd of people
ごみ《塵》 rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
酔う【よう】 to get drunk; to become intoxicated / to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated / to be elated; to be exalted; to be spellbound; to be in raptures
ずいぶん《随分》 very; extremely; surprisingly; considerably; awfully; terribly / terrible; horrid; contemptible; reprehensible / remarkable; extraordinary
数える【かぞえる】 to count; to enumerate
まさに《正に》 exactly; surely; certainly; just / right then; just then; at that moment / just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening) / duly; naturally
正確【せいかく】 accurate; correct; precise; exact
生じる【しょうじる】 to produce; to yield; to cause / to result from; to arise; to be generated
積もる【つもる】 to pile up; to accumulate / to estimate
責める【せめる】 to condemn; to blame; to criticize; to criticise; to reproach; to accuse / to urge; to press; to pester / to torture; to torment; to persecute / to break in (a horse)
全然【ぜんぜん】 not at all (with neg. verb) / wholly; entirely; completely
粗い【あらい】 coarse; rough
粗末【そまつ】 crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
素敵【すてき】 lovely; wonderful; nice; great; fantastic; superb; cool
組む【くむ】 to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms) / to put together; to construct; to assemble; to produce (e.g. TV program) / to braid; to plait / to grapple; to wrestle / to unite; to join; to link up; to form an alliance / to set (e.g. type) / to issue (e.g. money order)
訴える【うったえる】 to raise; to bring to (someone's attention) / to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to play on (one's sympathies) / to complain / to sue (a person); to take someone to court / to resort to (e.g. arms, violence)
ねずみ《鼠》 mouse; rat / dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
霜【しも】 frost
増す【ます】 to increase; to grow
すなわち《即ち》 that is; namely; i.e.
束【たば】 bundle; bunch; sheaf
袖【そで】 sleeve / wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)
尊敬【そんけい】 respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
だめ《駄目》 no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken / hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless / cannot; must not; not allowed / neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
大屋【おおや】 landlord; landlady
達する【たっする】 to reach; to get to; to arrive at
誰か【だれか】 someone; somebody
知能【ちのう】 intelligence; intellect; brains
地平線【ちへいせん】 horizon (related to land)
遅刻【ちこく】 lateness; late coming
眺める【ながめる】 to look at; to gaze at; to watch; to stare at / to look out over; to get a view of; to admire (e.g. the scenery) / to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch; to observe
頂戴【ちょうだい】 receiving; reception; getting; being given / eating; drinking; having / please; please do for me
沈む【しずむ】 to sink; to go under; to submerge / to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend / to feel depressed
通じる【つうじる】 to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to communicate (with) / to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to get through to / to be understood; to be comprehended / to be honored; to be good / to be well versed in; to be well-informed / to communicate clandestinely; to keep in touch (e.g. with the enemy) / to form a liaison; to be intimate / to spread widely; to disseminate
通す【とおす】 to stick through; to force through / to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse / to make a path between two points / to proceed in a logical manner / to let pass; to allow through / to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.); to show in / to go through (a middleman) / to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.) / to pass (a law, applicant, etc.) / to force to accept; to force agreement / to continue (in a state); to persist in / to do to the entirety of; to cover all of; to span the whole ... / to do from beginning to end without a break / to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party / to do to the end; to carry through; to complete
通り過ぎる【とおりすぎる】 to go past; to pass; to pass by
停留所【ていりゅうじょ】 stop (bus, tram, etc.); station; stopping place
ほど《程》 degree; extent; bounds; limit / upper limit
適する【てきする】 to fit; to suit
適度【てきど】 moderate (degree); proper (amount); temperate; suitable
うさぎ《兎》 rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
倒す【たおす】 to throw down; to bring down; to blow down; to fell; to knock down; to set (something) down on its side; to turn (something) on its side / to kill; to defeat; to beat / to overthrow; to trip up; to ruin / to leave unpaid; to cheat
当たる【あたる】 to be hit; to strike / to touch; to be in contact; to be affixed / to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to apply to / to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.) / to be selected (in a lottery, etc.); to win / to be successful; to go well; to be a hit / to face; to confront / to lie (in the direction of) / to undertake; to be assigned / to be stricken (by food poisoning, heat, etc.); to be afflicted / to be called upon (by the teacher) / to treat (esp. harshly); to lash out at / to be unnecessary / to be hitting well; to be on a hitting streak / (in fishing) to feel a bite / (of fruit, etc.) to be bruised; to spoil / to feel (something) out; to probe into; to check (i.e. by comparison) / to shave / to be a relative of a person; to stand in a relationship
等しい【ひとしい】 equal; identical; the same / no different (to); just like; equivalent
答案【とうあん】 examination paper; examination script; answer sheet / answer (to an exam question)
動かす【うごかす】 to move; to shift; to stir; to budge; to change position / to inspire; to rouse; to move (e.g. feeling); to influence / to change; to alter; to deny / to operate; to set in motion; to get going / to mobilize (e.g. troops); to mobilise; to deploy / to manage (e.g. funds)
動詞【どうし】 verb
得る【うる】 to be able to ...; can ... / to get; to acquire; to obtain; to procure; to earn; to win; to gain; to secure; to attain
縄【なわ】 rope; cord / policeman's rope
認める【みとめる】 to recognize; to recognise; to observe; to notice / to deem; to judge; to assess / to approve; to deem acceptable; to allow / to admit; to accept; to confess (to a charge) / to watch steadily; to observe carefully / to renown; to give renown to; to appreciate; to acknowledge
熱中【ねっちゅう】 being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to
年中【ねんじゅう】 whole year; all year round; throughout the year / always; all the time; perpetually / during an era / middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)
燃える【もえる】 to burn; to get fired up
悩む【なやむ】 to be worried; to be troubled
濃い【こい】 deep (colour); dark / strong (flavour, smell, etc.) / thick (consistency); dense / strong (possibility, etc.) / thick (i.e. "as thick as thieves"); close; deep (love, etc.)
発車【はっしゃ】 departure (of a train, car, etc.); starting; leaving
発明【はつめい】 invention / intelligent; clever / being enlightened; having the meaning of everything become clear
髪の毛【かみのけ】 hair (head)
罰する【ばっする】 to punish; to penalize; to penalise
反抗【はんこう】 opposition; resistance; insubordination; defiance; hostility; rebellion
悲しむ【かなしむ】 to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
かぶる《被る》 to put on (one's head); to wear; to have on; to pull over (one's head); to crown (oneself) / to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to dash on oneself; to ship water / to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to assume (responsibility); to shoulder (burden) / to overlap (e.g. sound or color) / to be similar; to be redundant / to be fogged (due to overexposure, etc.) / to close; to come to an end / to get a full house; to sell out / to blunder; to bungle; to fail / to be deceived
飛ばす【とばす】 to let fly; to make fly; to send flying; to blow off (e.g. in the wind); to launch; to fire; to hurl; to shoot / to skip over; to leave out; to omit; to drop (e.g. a stitch) / to run fast; to drive fast; to gallop / to spray; to splash; to spatter / to say without reservation; to call out (e.g. a jeer); to rattle of (e.g. a joke) / to spread (e.g. a rumour); to circulate; to send out (a message); to issue (e.g. an appeal) / to transfer (to a less important post); to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch); to demote / to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter) / to get rid of; to burn off (alcohol) / to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre) / to do vigorously; to do roughly; to do energetically
膝【ひざ】 knee / lap; knee and thigh (while sitting)
紐【ひも】 string; cord / man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; pimp
秒【びょう】 second (unit of time)
貧しい【まずしい】 poor; needy / lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty; skimpy; slight; inadequate
不可【ふか】 wrong; bad; improper; unjustifiable; inadvisable / not allowed; not possible / failing grade
不平【ふへい】 discontent; dissatisfaction; complaint; grievance
腐る【くさる】 to rot; to go bad; to decay; to spoil; to fester; to decompose; to turn sour (e.g. milk) / to corrode; to weather; to crumble / to become useless; to blunt; to weaken (from lack of practice) / to become depraved; to be degenerate; to be morally bankrupt; to be corrupt / to be depressed; to be dispirited; to feel discouraged; to feel down / to have the audacity to; to be bastard enough to / to lose a bet / to be drenched; to become sopping wet
物音【ものおと】 sounds
閉じる【とじる】 to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
癖【くせ】 habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency / peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; mannerism / crease; wrinkle; curl; kink
あたり《辺り》 on the bank of; by the side of (e.g. a river, pond) / (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby / around (Sunday, last year, etc...) / for instance
つかまる《捕まる》 to be caught; to be arrested / to hold on to; to grasp / to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi) / to be detained by
暮らす【くらす】 to live; to get along / to spend (time)
包み【つつみ】 bundle; package; parcel / counter for wrapped objects
放す【はなす】 to release; to let go; to free; to set free; to let loose; to turn loose / to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.
防ぐ【ふせぐ】 to defend against; to protect against / to prevent; to avert; to avoid
万一【まんいち】 emergency; unlikely event / by some chance; by some possibility
夢中【むちゅう】 absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to / forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium / within a dream; while dreaming
なし《無し》 without / unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
無駄【むだ】 futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
命じる【めいじる】 to order; to command / to appoint
迷子【まいご】 lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child
戻す【もどす】 to put back; to return; to give back; to restore (to a previous state, e.g. defrosting, reconstituting, reconciling); to turn back (e.g. clock hand) / to vomit; to throw up / to recover (of a market price)
もらう《貰う》 to receive; to take; to accept / to get somebody to do something
厄介【やっかい】 trouble; burden; nuisance; bother; worry / care; dependence; support; kindness; obligation; staying (with a person)
約【やく】 approximately; about / promise / shortening; reduction; simplification / contraction (in phonetics)
愉快【ゆかい】 pleasant; delightful; enjoyable; joyful; cheerful; amusing; happy
ただ《唯》 ordinary; common; usual / free of charge / unaffected; as is; safe / only; merely; just; simply / but; however; nevertheless
有能【ゆうのう】 able; capable; competent; talented; efficient
予期【よき】 expectation; assume will happen; forecast
余分【よぶん】 extra; excess; surplus
与える【あたえる】 to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award / to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply / to assign / to cause / to pass (a variable to a function)
預ける【あずける】 to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to place (in someone's custody); to entrust (someone) with; to deposit / to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to let (someone) decide / to lean on; to put one's weight on
幼い【おさない】 very young / childish; immature
用いる【もちいる】 to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise
用心【ようじん】 care; precaution; guarding; caution
要点【ようてん】 gist; main point
陽気【ようき】 cheerful; jovial; merry; lively / weather; season / spirit of yang
利口【りこう】 clever; intelligent; wise; bright; sharp; sensible; smart; shrewd / well-behaved (of kids, animals, etc); obedient; good / good (with words)
裏切る【うらぎる】 to betray; to turn traitor to; to double-cross
離す【はなす】 to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
立ち上がる【たちあがる】 to stand up; to get up / to rise / to recover / to take action; to start / to make the initial charge / to start up; to boot up
ほぼ《略》 almost; roughly; approximately
流れる【ながれる】 to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink) / to be washed away; to be carried / to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to wander; to stray / to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire); to spread; to circulate / to be heard (e.g. music); to be played / to lapse (e.g. into indolence, despair) / to pass; to elapse; to be transmitted / to be called off; to be forfeited / to disappear; to be removed
両替【りょうがえ】 change; money exchange
礼儀【れいぎ】 manners; courtesy; etiquette
劣る【おとる】 to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind
連れ【つれ】 companion; company
連想【れんそう】 association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
論じる【ろんじる】 to discuss; to talk about; to deal with (a topic) / to argue; to dispute / to take into consideration; to make an issue of
脇【わき】 armpit; under one's arm; side; flank / beside; close to; near; by / aside; to the side; away; out of the way / off-track; off-topic / deuteragonist; supporting role / second verse (in a linked series of poems)
贅沢【ぜいたく】 luxury; extravagance / to live in luxury; to indulge oneself / lavish (use of something); abundant; copious; wasteful
おる《居る》 to be (animate); to be; to exist / to be ..ing / to (have the audacity to) do
最中【さいちゅう】 in the middle of; height of; in course of; midst
注ぐ【そそぐ】 to pour (into) / to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to pour onto; to spray / to shed (tears) / to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to fix (one's eyes) on / to flow into (e.g. of a river); to run into; to drain into / to fall (of rain, snow); to pour down
転ぶ【ころぶ】 to fall down; to fall over / to turn out; to play out / to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize / to roll; to tumble / (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
年月【としつき】 months and years
頬【ほお】 cheek (of face)
飽きる【あきる】 to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
ある《或》 a certain ...; some ...
暗記【あんき】 memorization; memorisation; learning by heart
追いつく【おいつく】 to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to reach / to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
収める【おさめる】 to dedicate; to make an offering; to pay (fees) / to supply / to store / to finish; to bring to a close / to restore (something to its place) / to achieve (e.g. a result)
恐れる【おそれる】 to fear; to be afraid of
換える【かえる】 to replace / to exchange; to interchange / to substitute
かご《籠》 basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
幸運【こううん】 good luck; fortune
凍る【こおる】 to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
小包【こづつみ】 parcel; package
少々【しょうしょう】 just a minute; small quantity
勧める【すすめる】 to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to encourage; to urge / to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest / to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
退屈【たいくつ】 tedium; boredom; dullness / to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of
戦う【たたかう】 to make war (on); to wage war (against); to go to war (with); to fight (with); to do battle (against) / to compete (against) / to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight; to contend; to resist
例え【たとえ】 example / simile; metaphor; allegory; fable; parable
たびたび《度々》 often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
頼る【たよる】 to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
出会う【であう】 to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon / to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.) / to emerge and engage (an enemy)
のど《喉》 throat / singing voice
伸ばす【のばす】 to grow long (e.g. hair, nails) / to lengthen; to extend; to stretch / to reach out; to hold out / to straighten; to smooth out / to spread evenly (dough, cream, etc.) / to dilute; to thin out / to postpone / to prolong / to strengthen; to develop; to expand
計る【はかる】 to measure; to weigh; to survey; to time (sound, gauge, estimate) / to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
激しい【はげしい】 violent; furious; tempestuous / extreme; intense; fierce; strong / fervent; vehement / incessant; relentless / precipitous; steep
ばか《馬鹿》 fool; idiot / trivial matter; folly; absurdity / foolish; stupid; dull; absurd; ridiculous / Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)
引っ張る【ひっぱる】 to pull; to draw; to pull tight / to string (lines); to run (cable); to stretch / to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve) / to drag; to haul; to tow / to lead (e.g. one's followers) / to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police) / to tempt into joining; to strongly invite to join / to delay; to prolong / to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word) / to quote; to cite; to reference / to pull the ball / to wear; to put on
広がる【ひろがる】 to spread (out); to extend; to stretch; to reach to; to get around; to fill (e.g. a space)
満ちる【みちる】 to be full / to wax (e.g. moon) / to rise (e.g. tide) / to mature; to expire
虫歯【むしば】 cavity; tooth decay; decayed tooth; dental caries
基づく【もとづく】 to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
雇う【やとう】 to employ / to hire; to charter
決まり【きまり】 rule; regulation / settlement; conclusion; end; agreement; arrangement / habit; custom; habitual way / countenance in front of another person; face / love relationship between a customer and a prostitute
対する【たいする】 to face (each other); to be facing / to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to be related to / to receive (a client, etc.) / to compare with; to contrast with; to be in opposition with; to be opposed to / to confront; to oppose; to compete with
つまり《詰まり》 that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean; that (this, it) means / in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it; basically / clogging; obstruction; stuffing; (degree of) blockage / shrinkage / end; conclusion / dead end; corner / distress; being at the end of one's rope
途端【とたん】 just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
眺め【ながめ】 scene; view; prospect; outlook
なんで《何で》 why?; what for? / how?; by what means?
一人一人【ひとりひとり】 one by one; each; one at a time
アイスクリーム ice cream; icecream
アイロン iron (for pressing clothes) / hair iron; hair tong; curling tong
アウト out (in baseball, tennis, etc.) / outer; external; outside / no good; out of line; unacceptable; failure
アルバム album
インク ink
エネルギー energy / strength; power; stamina; get-up-and-go / food energy; calories
エンジン engine
カード card / curd / match; game; grouping in a competition or tournament
キャンプ camp
クラシック classical music / classic; classical / classic (work); the classics
クリーム cream
クリスマス Christmas
グラス glass (drinking vessel) / glass / glasses / grass
グループ group (usu. of people)
ケース case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.) / Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
ゲーム game
コーチ coach
コード code / cord / chord
ゴール goal; basket (basketball); finishing line; winning post / Gaul
サービス service; help; assistance; care; concern / discount; freebie; free gift / (after-sales) service; servicing; (product) maintenance / service (e.g. in tennis); serve
サイン autograph; signature / sign / sine
ジュース juice / soft drink (any (sweet) non-alcoholic beverage, carbonated or uncarbonated) / deuce
スープ (Western) soup
スイッチ switch
スキー skiing / ski; skis
スケート skating (esp. ice); skate; skates
スター star (cinema, sports, etc.); celebrity; idol / star symbol; asterisk / (celestial) star
スタイル figure; body build / style
スタンド stands; bleachers / stand (e.g. newspaper stand); counter (e.g. lunch counter) / stand (e.g. inkstand) / desk lamp; floor lamp; standard lamp / station (e.g. gas station)
スピーチ speech
セット set / set meal; combo-meal; combo; combination meal / hairdo
センター centre; center
タイプライター typewriter
タオル towel
ダイヤ diamond / (railway) schedule; timetable / diagram
ダンス dance
チーズ cheese / tee (piping); T-joint / cheese (expression used when taking a photograph)
チーム team
チャンス chance; opportunity
テント tent
デート date; go on a date
デモ demonstration; protest / (giving a) demo; demonstration; presentation
トップ top / top position / senior management; senior bureaucrat
トラック truck; lorry / track (running, CD, etc.) / track events
トランプ playing cards
トンネル tunnel / to tunnel (through a potential barrier) / letting a grounder go through one's legs
ドライブ drive; trip by car; driving / to (go for a) drive; to go on a trip by car / to drive (e.g. a car) / to drive (innovation, change, etc.); to propel / drive
ドラマ drama / TV drama; teledrama; play
ドレス dress
ノック knock; knocking / fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice
ハイキング hiking
ハンサム handsome
バイオリン violin
バッグ bag
パーセント percent; percentage
パイプ pipe; tube / channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections / tobacco pipe
パイロット pilot
パスポート passport
ビデオ video
ピクニック picnic
ピン pin (e.g. hairpin, bowling pin, golf pin, etc.) / one (on dice, in cards, etc.) / beginning; best / kickback
ブレーキ brake
プラス plus; addition / positive number / gain; advantage; asset; positive feature / anode; plus terminal; positive pole / + shape
プラン plan
プロ professional
ベルト belt (waist, seat, etc.); strap / belt; zone; area / drive belt; machine belt
ベンチ bench
ペンキ paint
ホーム platform / home
ボーイ boy / bellboy; porter; waiter
ボート boat; rowing boat
ボール ball / ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone) / bowl / board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
マーケット market
マイク mike; mic; microphone
ママ mama; mamma; mom; mommy; mum; mummy; mother / female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)
ミス mistake; error; failure / Miss / myth
ミルク milk
メモ memo; note; memorandum
メンバー member; participant; attendee; lineup (sport)
ユーモア humor; humour
ヨット yacht (usually only used for a sailing boat with one mast); sailing boat; sailboat
ライター lighter / writer
ラケット racket; paddle (in table-tennis)
ロケット rocket / locket
ワイン wine
持ち上げる【もちあげる】 to elevate; to raise; to lift up / to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
ころ《頃》 (approximate) time; around; about; toward / suitable time (or condition) / time of year; season
日本【にほん】 Japan
なかなか《中中》 very; considerably; easily; readily; fairly; quite; highly; rather / by no means; not readily / middle; half-way point / excellent; wonderful; very good
あちこち《彼方此方》 here and there; all around; everywhere; throughout; all over / to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
お昼【おひる】 lunch / noon; midday / daytime / waking up; getting up; rising
ビール beer
いけない《行けない》 wrong; not good; of no use / hopeless; past hope / must not do
おしゃべり《お喋り》 chattering; talk; idle talk; chat; chitchat; gossip / chatty; talkative; chatterbox; blabbermouth
かもしれない《かも知れない》 may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
がっかり feel disappointed; dejected; lose heart; feel emotionally drained; feel let down
きちんと properly; accurately; exactly; precisely; regularly / neatly; tidily; orderly
きつい tough; hard; severe; demanding; harsh / determined; strong-minded; forceful; formidable; fierce / strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe; intense / (too) tight; constricting; close / extreme; unusually strong
ぐっすり soundly (sleeping); fast (asleep)
こんなに so; like this; in this way
さっぱり feeling refreshed; feeling relieved / neat; tidy; clean / frank; open-hearted; plain; simple; light / completely; entirely / not in the least (with neg. verb); not at all / nothing at all; completely useless; hopeless; awful
ざっと roughly; approximately; round about; more or less / cursorily; briefly; quickly; lightly; roughly
しきりに《頻りに》 frequently; repeatedly; often; incessantly; constantly / strongly; eagerly
しばしば《屡々》 often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
しまった《仕舞った》 damn it!; damn!; oops!; oh dear!; oh no!
じっと《凝乎と》 motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still / fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think) / patiently (endure); stoically / firmly (e.g. hold); restrained
ずっと continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; all along; the whole time; all the way / much (better, etc.); by far; far and away / far away; long ago / direct; straight
そして《然して》 and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
そのうち《その内》 before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later / of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them; among others
それとも《其れ共》 or; or else
たった only; merely; but; no more than
たっぷり full; in plenty; ample
ちゃんと diligently; seriously; earnestly; reliably; steadily; legitimately / perfectly; properly; exactly; orderly; punctually; regularly / sufficiently; satisfactorily / quickly
ですから so; therefore
ところが《所が》 even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless; on the contrary; as a matter of fact; despite
とんでもない《とんでも無い》 unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive; terrible / absolutely not!; not at all!; far from it!; impossible!; preposterous!; what a thing to say!; no way!; bullshit / don't mention it; you're welcome
どんな what; what kind of / (with -temo, demo, etc.) any(body, thing, means, etc.)
どんなに how; how much
なぜなら《何故なら》 because; the reason is; if you want to know why
のんびり carefree; at leisure
ぴったり tightly; closely / exactly; precisely / suddenly (stopping) / perfectly (suited); ideally
ぼんやり dimly; faintly; indistinctly; vaguely / absentmindedly; vacantly; carelessly / idly; aimlessly / absence of mind; fool; blockhead; dunce
まあ just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; now, now / tolerably; passably; moderately; reasonably; fairly; rather; somewhat / well...; I think...; it would seem...; you might say...; Hmmm, I guess so... / oh!; oh dear!; oh, my!; wow!; goodness gracious!; good heavens!
やがて《軈て》 before long; soon / almost; nearly / finally; in the end; eventually
ウイスキー whisky; whiskey
ジェット機【ジェットき】 jet aeroplane; jet airplane
ソファ sofa; couch
いたずら《悪戯》 mischief; prank; trick; practical joke / pastime; hobby / playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with; messing around with; amusing oneself with; tampering with / lewd behaviour; sexual misconduct; sexual assault; molestation; rape
案【あん】 idea; plan; proposal; suggestion; (government) bill / draft; rough copy / expectation / desk; stand
位【くらい】 throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat / government position; court rank / social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung / grade (of quality, etc.); level; tier; rank / digit (e.g. the tens, the hundreds, etc.); place / degree; extent; amount
隠れる【かくれる】 to hide; to be hidden; to conceal oneself; to disappear
いつまでも《何時までも》 forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
どこか《何処か》 somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
可愛らしい【かわいらしい】 lovely; sweet
わがまま《我が儘》 selfish; egoist / self-indulgent; wilful; willful
会【かい】 meeting; assembly; party / association; club
解く【とく】 to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack / to unsew; to unstitch / to solve; to work out; to answer / to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease / to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege) / to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss / to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
解ける【とける】 to be solved / to loosen; to come untied / to be removed (e.g. restrictions); to be cleared (e.g. misunderstandings); to be broken (e.g. spells, curses) / to melt
けが《怪我》 injury (to animate object); hurt
灰【はい】 ash; ashes
角【つの】 horn; antler / antenna; feeler; tentacle (e.g. of a snail) / horn-like projection (e.g. peaks of whipped cream)
額【ひたい】 forehead; brow
たまらない《堪らない》 intolerable; unbearable; unendurable / irresistible; tremendous; out of this world / cannot help (doing); cannot but do; anxious to do
間【ま】 time; pause / space / room
丸【まる】 circle / entirety; whole; full; complete / money; dough; moola / enclosure inside a castle's walls / soft-shelled turtle / suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
まるで《丸で》 quite; entirely; completely; at all / as if; as though; just like
嬉しい【うれしい】 happy; glad; pleasant
輝く【かがやく】 to shine; to glitter; to sparkle
よろしい《宜しい》 good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do; may; can
詰める【つめる】 to stuff into; to jam; to cram; to pack; to fill; to plug; to stop up / to shorten; to move closer together / to reduce (spending); to conserve / to focus intently on; to strain oneself to do / to work out (details) / to be on duty; to be stationed / to corner (esp. an opponent's king in shogi); to trap; to checkmate / to cut off (one's finger as an act of apology); to catch (one's finger in a door, etc.) / to continue ...; to keep doing ... without a break / to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly / to force someone into a difficult situation by ...
求める【もとめる】 to want; to wish for / to request; to demand / to seek; to search for; to pursue (pleasure); to hunt (a job) / to purchase; to buy
旧【きゅう】 ex-; former; old
わずか《僅か》 only; merely; (a) little; small quantity
近頃【ちかごろ】 lately; recently; nowadays
金【かね】 money / metal
金【きん】 gold (Au); golden (color); gold (medal, cup) / valuable; of highest value / money; gold coin / Friday / metal (fourth of the five elements) / Jin (dynasty of China; 1115-1234 CE) / gold general / testicles / karat; carat
つなぐ《繋ぐ》 to connect; to link together / to tie; to fasten; to restrain / to maintain; to preserve; to keep / to transfer (phone call); to put a person through / to hedge; to buy or sell forward
欠ける【かける】 to be chipped; to be damaged; to be broken / to be lacking; to be missing / to be insufficient; to be short; to be deficient; to be negligent toward / (of the moon) to wane; to go into eclipse
月【つき】 moon / month
県【けん】 prefecture (of Japan) / county (of China)
原【はら】 field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
ことわざ《諺》 proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
のち《後》 later; afterwards; since / future / after one's death / descendant
おめでとう《お目出度う》 congratulations!; an auspicious occasion!
向く【むく】 to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.) / to face (e.g. east); to look out on / to point to / to be suited to; to be fit for / to go in the direction of; to lean towards (of a feeling)
向ける【むける】 to turn towards; to point
今にも【いまにも】 at any time; soon
こんにちは《今日は》 hello; good day; good afternoon
済ませる【すませる】 to finish; to make an end of; to get through with; to let end
すみません《済みません》 excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry / thank you
札【さつ】 note; paper money
しまう《仕舞う》 to finish; to stop; to end; to put an end to; to bring to a close / to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to shut down; to shut up / to put away; to put back; to keep; to store / to finish ...; to do ... completely
市【いち】 market; fair
支える【ささえる】 to support; to prop; to sustain; to underlay; to hold up; to defend / to hold at bay; to stem; to check
よす《止す》 to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign; to give up
式【しき】 equation; formula; expression / ceremony / style / enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
しかる《叱る》 to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
実【み】 fruit; nut / seed / (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc. / content; substance
者【もの】 person
取れる【とれる】 to come off; to be removed / (of pain, a fever, etc.) to disappear / to be caught; to be harvested / to be interpreted (as); to be taken as / (of balance, etc.) to be attained / to be obtainable
種【たね】 seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; kind; variety; quality; tone / material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); subject; theme; (news) copy / ingredient; leaven (bread); main ingredient of a sushi / cause; source / trick; secret; magician's trick; inside story / paternal blood; lineage / breed (of a stock); sperm; semen
就く【つく】 to ascend (the throne); to accede / to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to be hired; to be employed / to start (on a journey); to commence; to depart / to study (under teacher); to be an apprentice
臭い【くさい】 stinking; smelly / suspicious; fishy / clumsy; unskilled / smelling of / looking like; appearing like; smacking of; -ish
いとこ《従兄弟》 cousin (male)
ところで《所で》 by the way; incidentally / even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
いわゆる《所謂》 what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
除く【のぞく】 to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate / to exclude; to except
少しも【すこしも】 anything of; not one bit (with negative sentence)
床【ゆか】 floor / stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player) / dining platform built across a river
招く【まねく】 to invite; to ask / to beckon; to wave someone in; to gesture to / to call in; to send for; to summon / to bring on oneself; to cause; to incur; to lead to; to result in
省く【はぶく】 to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to eliminate / to curtail; to save; to cut down; to economize; to economise
象【ぞう】 elephant (Elephantidae spp.)
上【かみ】 upper reaches (of a river); upper stream / top; upper part; upper half (of the body) / long ago / beginning; first / person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) / government; imperial court / imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace / head (of a table) / wife; mistress (of a restaurant)
上【じょう】 from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); in the field of; being of the type of / aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; on; above / first volume (e.g. book) / superior quality; best; top; high class / going up / governmental; imperial / presenting; showing / ana- (medical, biol.)
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)
触れる【ふれる】 to touch; to feel / to experience; to come in contact with; to perceive / to touch on (a subject); to allude to; to refer to; to mention / to be in conflict with; to violate (law, copyright, etc.); to infringe / to proclaim; to make known; to spread (e.g. a rumour)
まさか《真逆》 by no means; never!; well, I never!; you don't say!; certainly (not) / something unexpected; emergency / currently; for the time being; presently; for now / indeed; really; truly; unexpectedly
つらい《辛い》 painful; bitter; heart-breaking; difficult (emotionally) / tough; difficult; hard (usu. of situations) / cruel; harsh; cold
進める【すすめる】 to advance; to move forward; to put (a clock, watch) forward / to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to make progress in; to further; to advance; to hasten; to speed up / to raise; to elevate; to promote; to develop; to stimulate (e.g. one's appetite)
震える【ふるえる】 to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver
ついに《遂に》 finally; at last / in the end
性【せい】 nature (of a person) / sex / gender / -ty; -ity; -ness; -cy
生【なま】 raw; uncooked; fresh / natural; as it is; unedited; unprocessed / unprotected (i.e. not wearing a condom) / live (i.e. not recorded) / inexperienced; unpolished; green; crude / impudence; sauciness / unpasteurized beer; draft beer; draught beer / just a little; somehow; vaguely; partially; somewhat; half-; semi- / irresponsibly; half-baked / cash / tipsiness
あいにく《生憎》 unfortunately; Sorry, but ...
切れ【きれ】 piece; slice; strip; scrap / cloth / sharpness / counter for scraps, pieces, etc.
切れる【きれる】 to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack / to be injured / to wear out; to be worn out / to break; to burst; to collapse / to wear off; to stop working; to go dead / to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due / to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of / to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected / to cut well; to be sharp / to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able / to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time) / to dry off / to curve; to veer / to shuffle (cards) / to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip / to be able to do completely
節【ふし】 joint; knuckle / tune; melody / knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem / part; notable characteristic
説【せつ】 theory; doctrine / opinion; view / rumour; rumor; gossip; hearsay
まず《先ず》 first (of all); to start with; about; almost; anyway; well; now / hardly (with neg. verb)
占める【しめる】 to occupy; to hold / to account for; to make up; to take up
全く【まったく】 really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly / indeed / good grief (expression of exasperation)
そのまま《其の儘》 without change; as it is; as it was / just like; extremely similar / immediately; just after; without a pause
それでも《其れでも》 but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
そこで《其処で》 so; accordingly; now; then; thereupon; therefore
ぶつ《打つ》 to hit (a person); to strike; to beat / to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)
対【つい】 pair; couple; set / antithesis / counter for items that come in pairs / counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
帯【おび】 obi; kimono sash / paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.
怠ける【なまける】 to be idle; to slacken / to neglect (e.g. one's work)
わざと《態と》 on purpose
いただきます《頂きます》 expression of gratitude before meals
大した【たいした】 considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
叩く【たたく】 to strike; to clap; to knock; to beat; to tap; to pat / to play drums / to abuse; to flame (e.g. on the Internet); to insult / to consult; to sound out / to brag; to talk big / to call; to invoke (e.g. a function)
知らせ【しらせ】 news; word; tidings; notice; notification; information / omen
しゃべる《喋る》 to talk; to chat; to chatter
じかに《直に》 directly; in person; firsthand
通り【とおり】 avenue; street; way; road / coming and going; street traffic / flow (of water, air, etc.) / transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice) / fame; reputation; popularity / the same status or way; as (e.g. as expected, as I said) / understanding; comprehension / counter for sets of things; counter for methods, ways, types
つかむ《掴む》 to seize; to catch; to grasp; to grip; to grab; to clutch; to hold; to catch hold of; to lay one's hands on / to obtain; to acquire; to get; to win; to capture / to understand; to grasp; to comprehend
諦める【あきらめる】 to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
おぼれる《溺れる》 to drown; to nearly drown; to sink below the surface (of water) / to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to wallow in
田【た】 rice field
とにかく《兎に角》 anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; at least
度【たび】 time (three times, each time, etc.); times
度【ど】 degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.) / counter for occurrences / strength (of glasses); glasses prescription / alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume / extent; degree; limit / presence of mind; composure
銅貨【どうか】 copper coin
届く【とどく】 to reach; to arrive; to get through; to get at / to be attentive; to pay attention / to be delivered; to carry (e.g. sound)
トン《屯》 ton (now usu. a metric ton, i.e. 1,000kg); tonne
どうしても《如何しても》 by all means; at any cost; no matter what; at any rate; surely / whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; willy-nilly / on no account; by no means / in the end; in the long run; after all; eventually
任せる【まかせる】 to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to / to passively leave to someone else's facilities / to leave to take its natural course / to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim) / to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
売れる【うれる】 to sell (well) / to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
莫大【ばくだい】 enormous; vast / malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
抜く【ぬく】 to pull out; to draw out; to extract; to unplug; to weed / to omit; to leave out; to go without; to skip / to do to the end; to carry through / to let out (e.g. air from a tyre); to drain (e.g. water from a bath); to empty / to pick out; to choose; to select; to extract / to pilfer; to steal / to remove; to get rid of; to take out / to pass; to overtake; to outstrip; to get ahead of / to pierce; to break through; to go through / to cut out (a shape); to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area / to seize; to capture; to reduce / to scoop (a story) / to take out (an opponent's stones; in go) / to masturbate (of a male); to ejaculate (while masturbating) / to take (a photo); to record (video)
抜ける【ぬける】 to come out; to fall out; to be omitted; to be missing; to escape; to come loose / to fade; to discolour / to wear a hole (e.g. clothes) / to leave (e.g. a meeting) / to be clear; to be transparent (e.g. of the sky) / to be stupid; to be absentminded; to be careless; to be inattentive / to exit (a program loop) / to go through; to pass through
微笑む【ほほえむ】 to smile
表【ひょう】 table (e.g. Table 1); chart; list
ふと《不図》 suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
付ける【つける】 to attach; to join; to add; to append; to affix; to stick; to glue; to fasten; to sew on; to apply (ointment) / to furnish (a house with) / to wear; to put on / to keep a diary; to make an entry / to appraise; to set (a price) / to allot; to budget; to assign / to bring alongside / to place (under guard or doctor) / to follow; to shadow / to load; to give (courage to) / to keep (an eye on) / to establish (relations or understanding) / to turn on (light) / to produce flowers; to produce fruit
仏【ほとけ】 Buddha; merciful person; Buddhist image / the dead; dead person; spirit of the dead
分【ぶん】 part; segment; share; ration / rate / degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot / relationship; connection; correspondence / in proportion to; just as much as
文【ぶん】 sentence / composition; text; writings / the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; literature / statement
しかも《然も》 moreover; furthermore / nevertheless; and yet
平ら【たいら】 flatness; level; smooth; calm; plain; sitting tailor fashion
柄【え】 handle; grip / stalk (of a mushroom, leaf, etc.)
法【ほう】 law; act; principle / method / mood / dharma
およそ《凡そ》 about; roughly; approximately / generally; on the whole; as a rule / completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb) / outline; gist
綿【めん】 cotton
もちろん《勿論》 of course; certainly; naturally
もっとも《尤も》 but then; although; though / reasonable; natural; just
優れる【すぐれる】 to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
率【りつ】 rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
量【りょう】 quantity; amount; volume; portion (of food)
唸る【うなる】 to groan; to moan / to roar; to howl; to growl / to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to whiz; to sough; to make a low, dull sound / to ooh and aah (in admiration) / to sing in a strong, low voice (esp. traditional chant or recitation) / to be about to burst; to overflow
ほこり《埃》 dust / one ten-billionth
いずれ《何れ》 where; which; who / anyway; anyhow; at any rate / sooner or later; eventually; one of these days; at some future date or time / both; either; any; all; whichever
やや《稍》 a little; partially; somewhat; slightly; semi-; -ish; on the ... side; a short time; a while
はさみ《鋏》 scissors; shears; clippers / hole punch
いつでも《何時でも》 (at) any time; always; at all times; whenever
うがい《嗽》 gargling; rinsing one's mouth
数【すう】 several; a number of / quantity; amount / counting; figures; numbers / number; numeral; figure / grammatical number / destiny; fate; course of events; trend
避ける【さける】 to avoid (physical contact with) / to avoid (situation) / to ward off; to avert
描く【えがく】 to draw; to paint; to sketch / to depict; to describe / to picture in one's mind; to imagine / to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)
品【しな】 article; item; thing; goods; stock / quality / flirtatiousness; coquetry
抱く【いだく】 to embrace; to hold in the arms (e.g. a baby); to hug / to harbour (e.g. grudge); to harbor; to bear; to have (e.g. ambition); to entertain (e.g. hope, suspicion) / to have sex with; to make love to; to sleep with / to sit on eggs
方々【ほうぼう】 here and there; this way and that way; everywhere; all over
面【めん】 face / mask; face guard / (in kendo) striking the head / surface (esp. a geometrical surface) / page / aspect; facet; side / chamfer / counter for broad, flat objects, levels or stages, e.g. in a video game
さて《偖》 well; now; then
空く【すく】 to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty / to be hungry
あらゆる《有らゆる》 all; every
ありがとう《有り難う》 Thank you; Thanks
あるいは《或いは》 or; either ... or / maybe; perhaps; possibly / sometimes; some
いただく《頂く》 to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to buy / to eat; to drink / to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head); to have (on top) / to have (as one's leader); to live under (a ruler); to install (a president) / to get somebody to do something
いらいら《苛々》 to get irritated; to get annoyed; to be on the edge; to fret; to lose patience
得る【える】 to get; to earn; to acquire; to procure; to gain; to secure; to attain; to obtain; to win / to understand; to comprehend / to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill) / to be able to ..., can ...
下ろす【おろす】 to take down (e.g. flag); to launch (e.g. boat); to drop; to lower (e.g. ladder); to let (a person) off; to unload; to discharge / to drop off (a passenger from a vehicle); to let (a person) off / to withdraw (cash) / to wear (clothing) for the first time / to fillet (e.g. a fish)
陰【かげ】 shade; shadow / other side; back; background
かなり《可也》 considerably; fairly; quite
効く【きく】 to be effective; to show effect / to do its work; to carry out its function well / to be possible to use
すべて《全て》 everything; all; the whole / entirely; completely; wholly; all
せいぜい《精々》 at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much (far) as possible
それぞれ《夫れ夫れ》 each; respectively
たまたま《偶々》 casually; unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance
吠える【ほえる】 to bark; to bay; to howl; to bellow; to roar; to cry
ますます《益々》 increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
むしろ《寧ろ》 rather; better; instead
よう《様》 appearing ...; looking ... / way to ...; method of ...ing / form; style; design / like; similar to / thing (thought or spoken)
一度に【いちどに】 all at once
生まれ【うまれ】 birth; birthplace / born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
かかる《罹る》 to contract (a disease); to suffer from
せい《所為》 consequence; outcome; result; blame
違いない【ちがいない】 (phrase) sure; no mistaking it; for certain
滅多に【めったに】 rarely; seldom
もしも《若しも》 if
ひく《轢く》 to run over (with a vehicle); to knock down
つぐ《注ぐ》 to pour (into a vessel); to fill (a cup, bowl, etc.) with; to dish out (food or drink)
だって after all; because / but / even / too; as well; also / they say; I hear; you mean
吐く【はく】 to vomit; to throw up; to spit up / to emit; to send forth; to breathe out / to give (an opinion); to make (a comment); to express; to tell / to confess
品【ひん】 elegance; grace; refinement; class; dignity / article; item / counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)
やはり《矢張り》 too; also; likewise; either / still; as before / even so; either way; nonetheless; in any event; all the same / as expected
回り【まわり】 rotation / making the rounds / spreading / effect; efficacy / by way of; via / round; turn / size / 12-year period; 12-year age difference
お《御》 honorific/polite/humble prefix
身体【しんたい】 body; physical system; person
いらっしゃい come; go; stay / welcome
これら《これ等》 these
そっくり all; altogether; entirely; completely / exactly like; just like
だけど however
よると《依ると》 according to
びっくり《吃驚》 to be surprised; to be amazed; to be frightened; to be astonished; to get startled; to jump / surprise (e.g. surprise party)
作法【さほう】 manners; etiquette; propriety / manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
うまい《上手い》 skillful; skilful; clever; expert; wise; successful / delicious; appetizing; appetising; tasty / fortunate; splendid; promising
男の人【おとこのひと】 man
泳ぎ【およぎ】 swimming
中【ちゅう】 medium; average; middle / moderation / middle school / China / volume two (of three) / during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while / in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people)
にっこり sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
訓【くん】 native Japanese reading of a Chinese character / precept; lesson; one's teachings
番【ばん】 number (in a series) / (one's) turn / watch; guard; lookout / bout; match
だが but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
日【にち】 Sunday / day (of the month) / counter for days / Japan
急に【きゅうに】 swiftly; rapidly; quickly; immediately; hastily; hurriedly / suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly / sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply
オーバー overcoat / exceeding; going over; going beyond / exaggerated; over the top; overdrawn; overreaction / over par / overexposure
オフィス office
カー car
キャプテン captain
グランド large / gland / ground (e.g. land, electrical, base material of textiles, etc.)
ジーンズ jeans
バン bun / van (caravan) / bang / ban (esp. of a player from an online game)
パス path / pass (e.g. skipping a move, passing an examination, ticket to allow entry, etc.) / pass
マスター to master (a skill) / proprietor; manager; owner; barkeeper / leader; chief; head / master (of arts, science, etc.) / master (recording) / master (device)
ヨーロッパ《欧羅巴》 Europe
ノー no / no; without; not needed; not allowed
縁【えん】 fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together) / relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; link; connection / family ties; affinity / opportunity; chance (to meet someone and start a relationship) / pratyaya (indirect conditions, as opposed to direct causes) / narrow open-air veranda
いつか《何時か》 sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course; in time
ごめんなさい《御免なさい》 I beg your pardon; excuse me
州【す】 sandbank; sandbar
直【なお】 straight / ordinary; common / doing nothing
分【ぶ】 one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun); 2.4 mm (one-tenth of a mon, a traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); 0.1 degree (one-tenth of a do, used to measure body temperature on any temperature scale) / one-quarter of a ryou (obsolete unit of currency) / thickness / advantageous circumstances / one-tenth of a monme of silver
率土【そっと】 face of the earth
ばったり with a clash; with a thud; with a bang; with a flop; plump / unexpectedly (meeting someone) / suddenly (ending); abruptly (coming to a halt)
不【ふ】 un-; non-; negative prefix
極【きょく】 pole / climax; extreme; extremity; culmination; height; zenith; nadir
無【む】 nothing; naught; nought; nil; zero / un-; non-
お互い【おたがい】 mutual; reciprocal; each other
あんなに to that extent; to that degree
密【みつ】 density; thickness / secrecy / minute; fine / esoteric Buddhism; secret Buddhist teachings
訳【やく】 translation; version (e.g. "English version")
はあ yes; indeed; well / ha! / what?; huh? / sigh
軒【けん】 counter for buildings (esp. houses) / suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
下【げ】 lowness (of degree, value, etc.); inferiority / second volume (of two); third volume (of three)
下【しも】 lower reaches (of a river) / bottom; lower part / lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses / end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan) / dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)
税【ぜい】 tax
小【しょう】 smallness; small item / short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days) / elementary school / younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name) / unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m)
後【ご】 after
ＶＡＮ【バン】 value-added network; VAN
元【もと】 former; ex-; past; one-time
ケチ stinginess; miserliness; penny-pinching; cheeseparing; miser; pinchpenny; skinflint; cheapskate; tightwad; niggard / shabby; cheap; mangy; poor / petty; narrow-minded; quibbling; mean-spirited / bad luck; ill omen; glitch
無【ぶ】 un-; non- / bad ...; poor ...
できれば《出来れば》 if possible
夜露死苦【よろしく】 best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
値【ね】 price; cost / value; worth; merit
以来【いらい】 since; henceforth
委員【いいん】 committee member
維持【いじ】 maintenance; preservation; improvement
違反【いはん】 violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement; contravention
医療【いりょう】 medical care; medical treatment
一般【いっぱん】 general; universal / ordinary; average; common / the same; no different; (just) as if
一方【いっぽう】 one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction; the other direction; one side; the other side; one party; the other party / on the one hand; on the other hand / whereas; although; but at the same time; meanwhile; in turn / just keeps; being inclined to ...; tending to be ...; tending to do ...; continuously ...; just keeps on ...ing; only
運動【うんどう】 exercise; physical training; work-out / appeal; campaign; drive; crusade; movement; lobbying / motion; movement
影響【えいきょう】 influence; effect / to influence; to affect; to have an influence on; to impact; to have an effect on
援助【えんじょ】 assistance; aid; support
価格【かかく】 price; value; cost
可能【かのう】 possible; potential; practicable; feasible
過去【かこ】 the past; bygone days; the previous / a past (i.e. a personal history one would prefer remained secret); one's past / past (tense); preterit; preterite / previous life
会員【かいいん】 member; the membership
解決【かいけつ】 settlement; solution; resolution
回復【かいふく】 restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; return; replevin; improvement / recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
海外【かいがい】 foreign; abroad; overseas
外交【がいこう】 diplomacy / selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
拡大【かくだい】 magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
活動【かつどう】 action; activity / movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
患者【かんじゃ】 patient
環境【かんきょう】 environment; circumstance
監督【かんとく】 supervision; control; superintendence; direction / director; superintendent; supervisor; coach; foreman; manager; overseer; controller; boss
管理【かんり】 control; management (e.g. of a business)
関心【かんしん】 concern; interest
関連【かんれん】 relation; connection; relevance
企業【きぎょう】 enterprise; business; company; corporation
基本【きほん】 foundation; basis; standard
期間【きかん】 period; term; interval
期待【きたい】 expectation; anticipation; hope
機関【きかん】 engine / agency; organisation; organization; institution; organ; body / system; facility; facilities
機能【きのう】 function; facility; faculty; feature
記事【きじ】 article; news story; report; account
記者【きしゃ】 reporter
記録【きろく】 record; minutes; document / record (e.g. in sports); results; score / to record; to document / to set a record (e.g. in sports); to show a result; to reach a value
議員【ぎいん】 member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress
議会【ぎかい】 congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
議長【ぎちょう】 chairman; speaker (e.g. of assembly); president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.); moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup)
教授【きょうじゅ】 professor / teaching; instruction
筋【すじ】 muscle; tendon; sinew / vein; artery / fiber; fibre; string / line; stripe; streak / reason; logic / plot; storyline / lineage; descent / school (e.g. of scholarship or arts) / aptitude; talent / source (of information, etc.); circle; channel / well-informed person (in a transaction) / logical move (in go, shogi, etc.) / ninth vertical line / seam on a helmet / gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) / social position; status / on (a river, road, etc.); along / counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions / (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
金融【きんゆう】 finance; financing; credit transacting; loaning of money; circulation of money / monetary; financial; credit
契約【けいやく】 contract; compact; agreement
景気【けいき】 business conditions; the market; economic activity; economic climate / good (economic) times; prosperity; boom / liveliness; energy; vigour; vigor; spirit
経営【けいえい】 management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting
計画【けいかく】 plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
決定【けってい】 decision; determination
結果【けっか】 result; consequence; outcome; effect / coming to fruition; bearing fruit
建設【けんせつ】 construction; establishment
憲法【けんぽう】 constitution
現在【げんざい】 now; current; present; present time; as of
現実【げんじつ】 reality; actuality; hard fact
現場【げんば】 actual spot; scene; scene of the crime; site; location; setting / shop floor; factory floor; (on) site
いわば《言わば》 so to speak; so to call it; as it were
個人【こじん】 individual; private person; personal; private
候補【こうほ】 candidate; contender; prospect; pick; choice; list / candidacy; candidature; nomination
効果【こうか】 effect; effectiveness; efficacy; result / effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
攻撃【こうげき】 attack; strike; offensive / criticism; censure; denunciation; condemnation
考え【かんがえ】 thinking; thought; view; opinion; concept / idea; notion; imagination / intention; plan; design / consideration; judgement; deliberation; reflection / wish; hope; expectation
行動【こうどう】 action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
国家【こっか】 state; country; nation
国会【こっかい】 National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-) / Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947) / legislative assembly; parliament; congress
国民【こくみん】 people (of a country); nation; citizen; national
今回【こんかい】 now; this time; lately
今後【こんご】 from now on; hereafter
最も【もっとも】 most; extremely
最高【さいこう】 most; highest; maximum; uppermost; supreme / best; wonderful; finest
最終【さいしゅう】 last; final; closing
裁判【さいばん】 trial; judgement; judgment
作業【さぎょう】 work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
作品【さくひん】 work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
参加【さんか】 participation
姿【すがた】 figure; form; shape / appearance; dress; guise / state; condition; picture; image / form (of a waka) / dressed in ...; wearing ...
市場【いちば】 (town) market / (the) marketplace
指導【しどう】 guidance; leadership; instruction; direction; coaching / shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
事件【じけん】 event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal
事実【じじつ】 fact; truth; reality
事情【じじょう】 circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
事務【じむ】 office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs
時期【じき】 time; season; period; phase; stage
自身【じしん】 by oneself; personally
自然【しぜん】 nature / natural; spontaneous / naturally; spontaneously
実施【じっし】 enforcement; implementation; putting into practice; carrying out; operation; working (e.g. working parameters); enactment
首相【しゅしょう】 Prime Minister; Chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); Premier
州【しゅう】 state; province; county; oblast; department (of ancient China) / continent / dear
住宅【じゅうたく】 residence; housing; residential building
住民【じゅうみん】 inhabitant; resident; citizen; population
重要【じゅうよう】 important; momentous; essential; principal; major
出身【しゅっしん】 person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
女子【じょし】 woman; girl
商品【しょうひん】 commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
情報【じょうほう】 information; news; intelligence; advices / information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
条件【じょうけん】 condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite
状況【じょうきょう】 state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
状態【じょうたい】 current status; condition; situation; circumstances; state
新た【あらた】 new; fresh; novel
人間【にんげん】 human being; person; man; mankind; humankind / character (of a person)
人気【にんき】 popularity; public favor / condition (e.g. market); tone; character; nature
制度【せいど】 system; institution; organization; organisation
成長【せいちょう】 growth; development; growing up; becoming an adult / growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
政府【せいふ】 government; administration
積極的【せっきょくてき】 positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive
責任【せきにん】 duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff) / liability; onus
選手【せんしゅ】 player (sports); athlete; team member
全体【ぜんたい】 whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
組織【そしき】 organization; organisation; formation / structure; construction; setup; constitution / system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.) / tissue / texture (of a rock) / weave (of a fabric)
相手【あいて】 companion; partner; company / other party; addressee / opponent (sports, etc.)
対象【たいしょう】 target; object (of worship, study, etc.); subject (of taxation, etc.)
代表【だいひょう】 representative; representation; delegation; type; example; model / switchboard number; main number
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
大会【たいかい】 convention; tournament; mass meeting; rally
大統領【だいとうりょう】 president (of a nation or company); chief executive / big man; boss; buddy; mate
団体【だんたい】 organization; organisation; association
男子【だんし】 youth; young man
知事【ちじ】 prefectural governor
地域【ちいき】 area; region
地球【ちきゅう】 the earth; the globe
地方【ちほう】 district; region; area; locality / the country; countryside; the provinces; rural area
中央【ちゅうおう】 centre; center; middle; heart / metropolis; capital city; central government
中心【ちゅうしん】 center; centre; middle; heart; core; focus; pivot; emphasis; balance / -centered; -centred; -focussed; -oriented; centered on; focussed on
調査【ちょうさ】 investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
通信【つうしん】 correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications
程度【ていど】 degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about; approximately
都市【とし】 town; city; municipal; urban
努力【どりょく】 effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
土地【とち】 plot of land; lot; soil / locality; region; place
投票【とうひょう】 voting; poll
当時【とうじ】 at that time; in those days
同時【どうじ】 simultaneous; concurrent; same time; synchronous; together
内容【ないよう】 contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
年間【ねんかん】 (period of) a year / during an era
農業【のうぎょう】 agriculture
判断【はんだん】 judgment; judgement; decision; conclusion; adjudication / divination / judgement
販売【はんばい】 sales; selling; marketing
批判【ひはん】 criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
舞台【ぶたい】 stage (theatre, theater) / scene or setting (e.g. of novel, play, etc.)
部分【ぶぶん】 portion; section; part
分野【ぶんや】 field; sphere; realm; division; branch
平和【へいわ】 peace; harmony
変化【へんか】 change; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; transformation; transfiguration; metamorphosis / variety; diversity / inflection; declension; conjugation / sidestepping
報告【ほうこく】 report; information
放送【ほうそう】 broadcast; broadcasting
方向【ほうこう】 direction; orientation; bearing; way / course (e.g. of action)
方法【ほうほう】 method; process; manner; way; means; technique
訪問【ほうもん】 call; visit
明らか【あきらか】 obvious; evident; clear; plain
目的【もくてき】 purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
目標【もくひょう】 mark; objective; target
役割【やくわり】 part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
輸出【ゆしゅつ】 export / efferent
輸入【ゆにゅう】 importation; import; introduction / afferent
優勝【ゆうしょう】 overall victory; championship
予算【よさん】 estimate; budget
要求【ようきゅう】 demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire
立場【たちば】 position; situation / viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
連続【れんぞく】 continuation; succession; series
一時【いちじ】 one o'clock / once; at one time; formerly; before / for a time; for a while; for the time being; for the present; for the moment; temporarily / a time; one time; once
全国【ぜんこく】 countrywide; nationwide; whole country; national
平均【へいきん】 average; mean / balance; equilibrium
共同【きょうどう】 doing together (as equals); sharing; common (land, etc.); joint (statement, etc.); cooperation; co-operation; collaboration; association
協力【きょうりょく】 cooperation; collaboration
銀【ぎん】 silver (Ag) / silver coin; money / silver medal / silver colour; silver color / bank / silver general
事態【じたい】 situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
労働【ろうどう】 manual labor; manual labour; toil; work / Labour Party
愛【あい】 love; affection; care / attachment; craving; desire
安定【あんてい】 stability; steadiness; equilibrium
意識【いしき】 consciousness / becoming aware (of); awareness; sense / mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
違い【ちがい】 difference; distinction; discrepancy / mistake; error
医師【いし】 doctor; physician
宇宙【うちゅう】 universe; cosmos; space
運転【うんてん】 operation (of a machine, etc.); operating; running; run / driving / working (capital, etc.)
営業【えいぎょう】 business; trade; sales; operations
衛星【えいせい】 satellite
演説【えんぜつ】 speech; address
会合【かいごう】 meeting; assembly; gathering / association / conjunction
改善【かいぜん】 betterment; improvement / kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
開始【かいし】 start; commencement; beginning; initiation
確実【かくじつ】 certainty; reliability; soundness
感じ【かんじ】 feeling; sense; impression
観光【かんこう】 sightseeing
希望【きぼう】 hope; wish; aspiration
記念【きねん】 commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
疑問【ぎもん】 doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
議論【ぎろん】 argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
競技【きょうぎ】 game; match; contest
共通【きょうつう】 common; shared; mutual / to be common (to); to be shared (by) / -wide
教師【きょうし】 teacher (classroom)
胸【むね】 chest; breast / breasts; bosom; bust / heart / lungs / stomach / heart; mind; feelings
禁止【きんし】 prohibition; inhibition; ban
軍【ぐん】 army; force; troops
傾向【けいこう】 tendency; trend; inclination
経験【けいけん】 experience
芸術【げいじゅつ】 (fine) art; the arts
劇場【げきじょう】 theatre; theater; playhouse
結局【けっきょく】 after all; in the end; ultimately; eventually / conclusion; end / end of a game of go, shogi, etc.
結論【けつろん】 conclusion
健康【けんこう】 health / healthy; sound; fit; wholesome
検査【けんさ】 inspection (e.g. customs, factory); examination; scan (e.g. MRI, PET, etc.)
検討【けんとう】 consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion; analysis; review
権利【けんり】 right; privilege
見解【けんかい】 opinion; point of view
現状【げんじょう】 present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
現代【げんだい】 nowadays; modern era; modern times; present-day
交換【こうかん】 exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution; replacement; clearing (of checks, cheques)
広告【こうこく】 advertisement
航空【こうくう】 aviation; flying
講演【こうえん】 lecture; address; speech
国境【こっきょう】 national border; provincial border
混乱【こんらん】 disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
差【さ】 difference; variation / difference
再び【ふたたび】 again; once more; a second time
作家【さっか】 author; writer; novelist; artist
賛成【さんせい】 approval; agreement; support; favour; favor
使用【しよう】 use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
思わず【おもわず】 unintentionally; reflexively; spontaneously; involuntarily; instinctively
支店【してん】 branch office; branch store
実験【じっけん】 experiment
実現【じつげん】 implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation
実際【じっさい】 practicality; practical / reality; actuality; actual conditions / bhutakoti (limit of reality)
主義【しゅぎ】 doctrine; rule; principle; -ism
主張【しゅちょう】 claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention; opinion; tenet
主婦【しゅふ】 housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
主要【しゅよう】 chief; main; principal; major
首都【しゅと】 capital city; metropolis
需要【じゅよう】 demand; request
収入【しゅうにゅう】 income; receipts; revenue
宗教【しゅうきょう】 religion; religious affiliation; belief; faith; creed / religious activity
修正【しゅうせい】 amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching; update; fix
集団【しゅうだん】 group; mass
準備【じゅんび】 preparation; setup; arrangements; provision; reserve
処理【しょり】 processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal
少年【しょうねん】 boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
承認【しょうにん】 recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
消費【しょうひ】 consumption; expenditure
障害【しょうがい】 obstacle; impediment; hindrance; difficulty; barrier / handicap; impairment; disability; disorder; malfunction
深刻【しんこく】 serious; severe; grave; acute
身【み】 body / oneself / one's place; one's position / main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.); wood (as opposed to bark); blade (as opposed to its handle); container (as opposed to its lid)
人生【じんせい】 (human) life (i.e. conception to death)
人物【じんぶつ】 person; character; figure; personage; man; woman / one's character; one's personality / able person; talented person
推薦【すいせん】 recommendation; referral; endorsement
水準【すいじゅん】 level; standard / water level
数字【すうじ】 numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
正式【せいしき】 due form; official; formality
精神【せいしん】 mind; spirit; soul; heart; ethos / attitude; mentality; will; intention / spirit (of a matter); essence; fundamental significance
製造【せいぞう】 manufacture; production
製品【せいひん】 manufactured goods; finished goods; product
石油【せきゆ】 oil; petroleum; kerosene
設備【せつび】 equipment; device; facilities; installation
全員【ぜんいん】 all members (unanimity); all hands; the whole crew; everyone; everybody
組合【くみあい】 association; union; guild
相談【そうだん】 consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
装置【そうち】 equipment; device; installation; apparatus / stage setting
増加【ぞうか】 increase; rise; growth; addition; increment
存在【そんざい】 existence; being
態度【たいど】 attitude; manner; behaviour
逮捕【たいほ】 arrest; apprehension; capture
大使【たいし】 ambassador
担当【たんとう】 being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)
地区【ちく】 district; section; sector
仲間【なかま】 company; fellow; colleague; associate; comrade; mate; group; circle of friends; partner / member of the same category
長期【ちょうき】 long-term
直接【ちょくせつ】 direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
提案【ていあん】 proposal; proposition; suggestion
伝統【でんとう】 tradition; convention
党【とう】 party (political) / faction; -ite
同様【どうよう】 identical; equal to; same (kind); like; similarity
道路【どうろ】 road; highway
特徴【とくちょう】 feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
独立【どくりつ】 independence (e.g. Independence Day); self-support
能力【のうりょく】 ability; faculty
馬【うま】 horse / horse racing / promoted bishop
畑【はたけ】 field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; vegetable plot; kitchen garden; plantation / field (of specialization); sphere; area / womb; birth; birthplace
発行【はっこう】 publication; issue (of journal, newspaper, etc.) / issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.) / raising an event (software)
発展【はってん】 development; growth; expansion; extension; flourishing / development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; progression; unfolding / playing around; having an active sex life
発表【はっぴょう】 announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known; breaking (news story); expressing (one's opinion); releasing; unveiling
彼ら【かれら】 they; them
被害【ひがい】 (suffering) damage; injury; harm
費用【ひよう】 cost; expense
非常【ひじょう】 emergency / extraordinary; unusual
表現【ひょうげん】 expression; presentation / representation; notation
表情【ひょうじょう】 facial expression; countenance / look; appearance; expression (vocal, etc.)
評価【ひょうか】 valuation; estimation; assessment; evaluation; rating / to value; to assess; to rate; to estimate value / to appreciate; to value highly; to acknowledge the value (of something)
不安【ふあん】 anxiety; uneasiness; insecurity; suspense
不足【ふそく】 insufficiency; shortage; deficiency; lack; dearth
不満【ふまん】 dissatisfaction; displeasure; discontent; complaints; unhappiness; disgruntled
夫人【ふじん】 wife; Mrs; madam / wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.) / consort of the emperor
父親【ちちおや】 father
武器【ぶき】 weapon; arms; ordnance / weapon (something used to gain an advantage); asset
幅【はば】 width; breadth / freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude / gap; difference (e.g. in price); range (e.g. of voice)
母親【ははおや】 mother
豊か【ゆたか】 abundant; wealthy; plentiful; rich; affluent / very; extremely; full of; great
本人【ほんにん】 the person himself
無料【むりょう】 free (of charge); gratuitous
名【な】 name; given name / title / fame; renown; reputation / pretext; pretense; justification; appearance
明確【めいかく】 clear; precise; definite; distinct
友人【ゆうじん】 friend
有効【ゆうこう】 valid; effective / yuko (judo)
様子【ようす】 state; state of affairs; situation; circumstances / appearance; look; aspect / sign; indication
利益【りえき】 profit; gains / benefit; advantage; interest (of the public, etc.) / grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing; miracle
理解【りかい】 understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
流れ【ながれ】 stream; current; flow / course of events
料金【りょうきん】 fee; charge; fare
老人【ろうじん】 the aged; old person
話題【わだい】 topic; subject
数【かず】 number; amount
夫婦【ふうふ】 married couple; spouses; husband and wife; couple; pair / his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
例【れい】 custom; practice; habit; usual / said; aforementioned / instance; example; case; illustration; usage / precedent
年齢【ねんれい】 age; years
我々【われわれ】 we
以前【いぜん】 ago; since; before; previous
意思【いし】 intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)
一層【いっそう】 much more; still more; all the more; more than ever / single layer (or storey, etc.) / rather; sooner; preferably
印象【いんしょう】 impression
汚染【おせん】 pollution; contamination
何か【なにか】 something
価値【かち】 value; worth; merit
歌手【かしゅ】 singer
絵画【かいが】 painting; picture
確認【かくにん】 confirmation; verification; validation; review; check; affirmation; identification
学者【がくしゃ】 scholar
学習【がくしゅう】 study; learning; tutorial
額【がく】 picture (framed) / amount or sum (of money)
株【かぶ】 stock; share / stump / root; rootstock / strain (of bacteria, etc.) / tradeable rank; goodwill / one's forte
感覚【かんかく】 sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
機械【きかい】 machine; mechanism / instrument; appliance; apparatus
義務【ぎむ】 duty; obligation; responsibility
急速【きゅうそく】 rapid (e.g. progress)
許可【きょか】 permission; approval; authorization; license / to permit; to authorize
供給【きょうきゅう】 supply; provision
緊張【きんちょう】 tension; mental strain; nervousness
近代【きんだい】 present day; modern times
金額【きんがく】 amount of money
空【から】 emptiness; vacuum; blank
訓練【くんれん】 training; drill; practice; discipline
劇【げき】 drama; play / powerful drug
建築【けんちく】 construction; architecture (of buildings)
肩【かた】 shoulder
現金【げんきん】 cash; ready money; money on hand; currency / mercenary; self-interested; calculating
現象【げんしょう】 phenomenon
構成【こうせい】 organization; organisation; configuration; composition
貢献【こうけん】 contribution (furthering a goal or cause); services (to a cause)
合計【ごうけい】 sum total; total amount
差別【さべつ】 distinction; differentiation; discrimination / discrimination (against women, minorities, etc.)
最低【さいてい】 least; lowest; minimum / worst / awful; horrible; nasty; disgusting / at the very least
材料【ざいりょう】 ingredients; material / material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; data / basis (for a decision); grounds; evidence / (market) factor
参考【さんこう】 reference; consultation
残り【のこり】 remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
思想【しそう】 thought; idea; ideology
支配【しはい】 domination; rule; control / direction; management; guidance / control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate); governing; influence; holding sway over
資源【しげん】 resources
資本【しほん】 funds; capital
失業【しつぎょう】 unemployment / losing one's job; becoming unemployed
実は【じつは】 as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
実行【じっこう】 execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment; realization
手術【しゅじゅつ】 surgery; operation; procedure
手段【しゅだん】 means; way; measure
周囲【しゅうい】 surroundings; environs / circumference
就職【しゅうしょく】 finding employment; getting a job
集中【しゅうちゅう】 concentration; focusing; convergence; centralization; integration; gathering together / within a collection of works
重大【じゅうだい】 serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
出席【しゅっせき】 attendance; presence; appearance / to attend; to be present; to appear
出版【しゅっぱん】 publication
章【しょう】 chapter; section / medal
場面【ばめん】 scene; setting (e.g. of novel)
職業【しょくぎょう】 occupation; business
食事【しょくじ】 meal / to eat
食品【しょくひん】 food; food products; foodstuffs
信用【しんよう】 confidence; trust; faith; reputation / credit (finance)
信頼【しんらい】 reliance; trust; faith; confidence
神【かみ】 god; deity; divinity; spirit; kami / incredible; fantastic / emperor of Japan / thunder
制限【せいげん】 restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
勢い【いきおい】 force; vigor; vigour; energy; spirit; life / influence; authority; power; might / impetus; momentum; course (of events) / naturally; necessarily
性格【せいかく】 character; personality; disposition; nature
成功【せいこう】 success; hit
成績【せいせき】 results; record; grades; marks
正午【しょうご】 noon; mid-day
生命【せいめい】 life; existence
請求【せいきゅう】 claim; demand; charge; application; request; billing (for a service)
青年【せいねん】 youth; young man
跡【あと】 trace; tracks; mark; sign / site; remains; ruins / scar
設計【せっけい】 plan; design; layout
専攻【せんこう】 major subject; special study
選択【せんたく】 selection; choice; option
相当【そうとう】 corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to / appropriate; suitable; befitting; proportionate / to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with; to be deserving of; to be worthy of / considerable; substantial / considerably; rather; quite; fairly; pretty
損害【そんがい】 damage; injury; loss
体育【たいいく】 physical education
代理【だいり】 representation; agency; proxy; deputy; agent; attorney; substitute; alternate; acting (principal, etc.)
大臣【だいじん】 cabinet minister
大半【たいはん】 majority; more than half; most (of) / mostly; largely; mainly; predominately; nearly
単位【たんい】 unit; denomination / credit (in school)
誕生【たんじょう】 birth; creation; formation
地【ち】 earth; ground; land; soil / place / territory / bottom (of a package, book, etc.) / earth (one of the five elements)
地位【ちい】 (social) position; status
地下【ちか】 basement; cellar; underground place / underground; below ground / secret; under cover / underground (railway); subway; metro
中学【ちゅうがく】 middle school; junior high school
中止【ちゅうし】 suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption
注目【ちゅうもく】 notice; attention; observation
著者【ちょしゃ】 author (usu. of a particular book); writer
定期【ていき】 fixed period; fixed term / regular; periodic; periodical / fixed-term commutation pass / fixed-term deposit / futures contracts
抵抗【ていこう】 resistance; opposition; standing up to / reluctance; repulsion; repugnance / resistance; drag; friction / electrical resistance / resistor
提出【ていしゅつ】 presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in
徹底【てってい】 thoroughness; completeness; consistency / thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
鉄道【てつどう】 railroad; railway; rail transport
都【みやこ】 capital; metropolis; seat of government / capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light) / location of the Imperial Palace
日常【にちじょう】 everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
農家【のうか】 farmer; farming family / farmhouse
俳優【はいゆう】 actor; actress; player; performer
犯罪【はんざい】 crime; offence; offense
範囲【はんい】 extent; scope; sphere; range; span
微妙【びみょう】 delicate; subtle; sensitive / difficult; delicate (situation); complicated / doubtful; questionable; dicey; tricky
物価【ぶっか】 prices of commodities; prices (in general); cost-of-living
物語【ものがたり】 tale; story; legend
物質【ぶっしつ】 material; substance / matter
分析【ぶんせき】 analysis
雰囲気【ふんいき】 mood; ambience; ambiance; aura; feel / a certain air; presence; special aura; something (about someone) / air; atmosphere
文字【もじ】 letter (of alphabet); character / writing
変更【へんこう】 change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
魅力【みりょく】 charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal
模様【もよう】 pattern; figure; design / state; condition / conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems / model; pattern; example / indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm) / framework (in go); territorial framework; moyo
唯一【ゆいいつ】 only; sole; unique
余裕【よゆう】 surplus; margin; leeway; room; space; time; allowance; flexibility; scope / composure; placidity; complacency; calm
旅【たび】 travel; trip; journey
湾【わん】 bay; gulf; inlet
管【かん】 pipe; tube
谷【たに】 valley
痛み【いたみ】 pain; ache; soreness; grief; distress / damage; injury; wear; bruise; break
支払い【しはらい】 payment
戦い【たたかい】 battle; fight; struggle; conflict
保証【ほしょう】 guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
演奏【えんそう】 musical performance
意外【いがい】 unexpected; surprising
移動【いどう】 movement; transfer; migration; removal; travel / mobile; moving; traveling; travelling; roving
一体【いったい】 (what) the heck; (why) in the world; (who) on earth / one object; one body; unity / one form; one style / one Buddhist image (or carving, etc.) / generally; in general
一致【いっち】 coincidence; agreement; union; match / conformity; consistency / cooperation
化学【かがく】 chemistry
何も【なにも】 nothing (with neg. verbs); not any / and everything else (with noun plus "mo"); all
完成【かんせい】 complete; completion / perfection; accomplishment
完全【かんぜん】 perfect; complete
感情【かんじょう】 emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
歓迎【かんげい】 welcome; reception
観客【かんきゃく】 audience; spectator; spectators
旗【はた】 flag / pataka (banner)
すでに《既に》 already; too late
記憶【きおく】 memory; recollection; remembrance / storage
貴重【きちょう】 precious; valuable
球【きゅう】 sphere / counter for balls
巨大【きょだい】 huge; gigantic; enormous
許す【ゆるす】 to permit; to allow; to approve; to consent to / to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to tolerate / to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to release; to let off / to acknowledge; to admit / to trust; to confide in; to let one's guard down / to give up (points in a game, distance in a race, etc.); to yield
強力【きょうりょく】 powerful; strong
教科書【きょうかしょ】 textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
金属【きんぞく】 metal
具体【ぐたい】 concrete; tangible; material
刑事【けいじ】 (police) detective / criminal matter
計算【けいさん】 calculation; reckoning; count / forecast
穴【あな】 hole / deficit; shortage; missing person (in a team, meeting, etc.) / vacancy; opening / flaw / profitable place (or item, etc.) not well known by others / upset victory (with a large payoff) / pit (of a theater) / hiding place / underbelly (of society, etc.)
限界【げんかい】 limit; bound
互い【たがい】 mutual; reciprocal
腰【こし】 back; lower back; waist; hips; lumbar region / body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
骨【ほね】 bone / frame / outline; core / backbone; spirit; fortitude / laborious; troublesome; difficult
困難【こんなん】 difficulty; hardship; trouble; distress
財産【ざいさん】 property; fortune; assets
作曲【さっきょく】 composition; setting (of music)
支出【ししゅつ】 expenditure; disbursement; expenses
死亡【しぼう】 death; mortality / to die; to pass away
時【とき】 time; hour; moment / occasion; case / chance; opportunity; season / the times; the age; the day / tense
自動【じどう】 automatic action; automation operation; self-motion / intransitive verb
質【しつ】 quality; value / nature; inherent quality; character / logical quality
酒【さけ】 alcohol; sake
週【しゅう】 week
重視【じゅうし】 regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on
銃【じゅう】 gun; rifle; small arms
瞬間【しゅんかん】 moment; second; instant
順調【じゅんちょう】 favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
署名【しょめい】 signature
女優【じょゆう】 actress
松【まつ】 pine tree (Pinus spp.) / highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
症状【しょうじょう】 symptoms; condition
笑い【わらい】 laugh; laughter / smile / sneer / sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
笑顔【えがお】 smiling face; smile
衝突【しょうとつ】 collision; crash; running into / conflict; quarrel; clashing
常に【つねに】 always; constantly
植物【しょくぶつ】 plant; vegetation
食料【しょくりょう】 food
心臓【しんぞう】 heart / guts; nerve; cheek; gall; spine / central part
心配【しんぱい】 worry; concern; anxiety; uneasiness; fear / care; help; aid; assistance
心理【しんり】 state of mind; mentality; psychology
人類【じんるい】 mankind; humanity
世紀【せいき】 century / era
正【せい】 (logical) true; regular / 10^40; ten thousand undecillion / original / positive; greater than zero
生物【せいぶつ】 living thing; creature; life / biology
絶対【ぜったい】 absolutely; unconditionally / absolute; unconditional; unmistakable / absoluteness
操作【そうさ】 operation; management; handling / manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
太陽【たいよう】 sun
滞在【たいざい】 stay; sojourn
大戦【たいせん】 great war; great battle
単純【たんじゅん】 simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward
知識【ちしき】 knowledge; information
注文【ちゅうもん】 order; request
貯金【ちょきん】 putting money aside; savings; deposit (e.g. in a bank) / accumulated surplus of wins; wins in the bank
底【そこ】 bottom; sole
適切【てきせつ】 pertinent; appropriate; adequate; relevance
適用【てきよう】 applying (e.g. a technology); adoption
鉄【てつ】 iron (Fe) / strong and hard (as iron) / railway / railway enthusiast
電子【でんし】 electron / electronic
土【つち】 earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud / the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land / low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud) / (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
土曜【どよう】 Saturday
同一【どういつ】 identical; same; one and the same; equal / fair; equal treatment; without discrimination
独特【どくとく】 peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic / understood only by oneself
日中【にっちゅう】 daytime; during the day / Japan and China
入場【にゅうじょう】 entrance; admission; entering
農民【のうみん】 farmer; peasant
波【なみ】 wave
博士【はかせ】 expert; learned person / doctor; PhD; Dr. / instructor at the imperial court (ritsuryo period) / pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.)
博物館【はくぶつかん】 museum
爆発【ばくはつ】 explosion; detonation; eruption
発見【はっけん】 discovery; detection; finding
秘密【ひみつ】 secret; secrecy; confidentiality; privacy / mystery / secret (e.g. to success) / esoteric teachings
飛行【ひこう】 aviation; flight; flying / to fly; to take a flight
表面【ひょうめん】 surface; face / outside; exterior / appearances; superficiality
不正【ふせい】 injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity; dishonesty; illegality; fraud
婦人【ふじん】 woman; lady; adult female
風景【ふうけい】 scenery; scene; landscape; view; sight / scene (e.g. of a crime)
別に【べつに】 (not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially / separately; apart; additionally; extra
暮らし【くらし】 life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
末【すえ】 tip; top / end; close (e.g. close of the month) / youngest child / descendants; offspring; posterity / future / finally / trivialities
未来【みらい】 the future (usually distant) / future tense / the world to come
名人【めいじん】 master; expert
命【いのち】 life; life force / lifetime; lifespan / most important thing; foundation; core / paired tattoos of the "life" kanji on the upper arms of a man and woman (indicating unwavering love) / fate; destiny; karma
命令【めいれい】 order; command; decree; directive / (software) instruction; statement
野【の】 plain; field / hidden (structural) member / wild / lacking a political post
役【やく】 use; service; role / post; position / scoring combination (e.g. in mahjong, card games, etc.); hand
油【あぶら】 oil
友【とも】 friend; companion; comrade; pal
予防【よぼう】 prevention; precaution; protection against
曜日【ようび】 day of the week
要素【ようそ】 component; factor; item (e.g. in list) / element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
涙【なみだ】 tear; tears; lachrymal secretion / sympathy
列車【れっしゃ】 train; railway train
論文【ろんぶん】 thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
一家【いっか】 a family; a household; a home; one's family; whole family / (one's own) style; school / gang; (yazuka) family
少女【しょうじょ】 little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old / female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
乗客【じょうきゃく】 passenger
位置【いち】 place; situation; position; location
丘【おか】 hill; height; knoll; rising ground / bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
影【かげ】 shadow; silhouette; figure; shape / reflection; image / ominous sign / light (stars, moon) / trace; shadow (of one's former self)
格好【かっこう】 shape; form; figure; posture; pose / appearance / state; situation / suitable; fit; reasonable / about
寄付【きふ】 contribution; donation
桜【さくら】 cherry tree; cherry blossom / decoy; fake buyer; shill / hired applauder / horse meat
年寄り【としより】 old person; elderly person; senior citizen / trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay / senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate) / important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
残す【のこす】 to leave (behind, over); to bequeath; to save; to reserve
郵便【ゆうびん】 mail service; postal service; mail; post / mail; postal matter; postal items
有利【ゆうり】 advantageous; better; profitable; lucrative
喜び【よろこび】 joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing; congratulations; felicitations
勝ち【かち】 win; victory
他【た】 other (esp. people and abstract matters)
異常【いじょう】 strangeness; abnormality; disorder
一種【いっしゅ】 species; kind; variety
引退【いんたい】 retirement
円【えん】 yen; Japanese monetary unit / circle
演技【えんぎ】 acting; performance
縁【ふち】 rim; brim; edge; brink
なんとか《何とか》 something; something or other; so-and-so / somehow; anyhow; one way or another
火災【かさい】 conflagration; fire
画家【がか】 painter; artist
会計【かいけい】 account; finance; accountant; treasurer; paymaster; reckoning; bill
解釈【かいしゃく】 explanation; interpretation
汗【あせ】 sweat; perspiration / moisture; condensation
願い【ねがい】 desire; wish; request; prayer; petition; application
気温【きおん】 atmospheric temperature
休暇【きゅうか】 holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
急激【きゅうげき】 sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
強盗【ごうとう】 robber; mugger / robbery; burglary
型【かた】 model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.) / type; style; pattern / mold (mould); template; model / kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.) / form (i.e. customary procedure) / size (i.e. clothing, shoes) / inch (in diagonal display size) / (taxonomical) form
見事【みごと】 splendid; magnificent; excellent; fine; superb; beautiful; admirable / utter (esp. defeat); total; complete / something worth seeing; sight; spectacle
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
限る【かぎる】 to restrict; to limit; to confine / to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be confined to / to be best (for); to be the best plan; to be the only way (to)
呼吸【こきゅう】 breathing; respiration / knack; trick; secret (of doing something) / harmony; balance; synchronization; accord / short interval; short pause
合格【ごうかく】 success; passing (e.g. exam); eligibility
根【ね】 root (of a plant) / root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.) / root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis / one's true nature / (fishing) reef
罪【つみ】 crime; sin; wrongdoing; indiscretion / penalty; sentence; punishment / fault; responsibility; culpability / thoughtlessness; lack of consideration
示す【しめす】 to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to tell; to exemplify; to make apparent / to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.) / to indicate; to show; to represent; to signify; to display
芝居【しばい】 play; drama
借金【しゃっきん】 debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
種類【しゅるい】 variety; kind; type; category / counter for different sorts of things
出発【しゅっぱつ】 departure
書類【しょるい】 document; official papers
徐々【じょじょ】 gradually; steadily; quietly; slowly; little by little / soon
招待【しょうたい】 invitation
常識【じょうしき】 common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice; social etiquette
食糧【しょくりょう】 food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply
審判【しんぱん】 refereeing; trial; judgement; judgment; umpire; referee
慎重【しんちょう】 careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate
神経【しんけい】 nerve / nerves; sensitivity
人工【じんこう】 artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
人種【じんしゅ】 race (of people) / type of person
世話【せわ】 looking after; help; aid; assistance
ぜひ《是非》 certainly; without fail / right and wrong; pros and cons
整理【せいり】 sorting; arrangement; organization; putting in order; adjustment; regulation / liquidation; settlement; consolidation; clearance (e.g. debt); paying off / retrenchment; curtailment; cutting down; disposal
税金【ぜいきん】 tax; duty
善【ぜん】 good; goodness; right; virtue
騒ぎ【さわぎ】 uproar; disturbance
贈る【おくる】 to give (as a gift); to present / to confer; to bestow; to award
息【いき】 breath; breathing / tone; mood
孫【まご】 grandchild
損【そん】 loss; damage; harm; unprofitable / disadvantage; handicap; drawback; unfavorable
代金【だいきん】 price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
大気【たいき】 atmosphere
大陸【たいりく】 continent / continental Asia (esp. mainland China) / continental Europe
宅【たく】 house; home / one's husband
奪う【うばう】 to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
調子【ちょうし】 tune; tone; key; pitch; time; rhythm / vein; mood; way; manner; style; knack / condition; state of health / impetus; spur of the moment; strain / trend
直ちに【ただちに】 at once; immediately; directly; in person; automatically
追う【おう】 to chase; to run after; to pursue; to follow after / to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.) / to drive out; to get rid of; to oust; to expel / to drive (e.g. a herd) / to be pressed (e.g. for time)
哲学【てつがく】 philosophy
得意【とくい】 triumph; prosperity / pride / one's strong point; one's forte; one's specialty / frequent customer (client, etc.)
読書【どくしょ】 reading
日曜【にちよう】 Sunday
熱心【ねっしん】 zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager
能【のう】 talent; gift; function / noh (theatre)
犯人【はんにん】 offender; criminal; culprit
否定【ひてい】 denial; negation; repudiation; disavowal / negation (logic) / NOT operation
比較【ひかく】 comparison
必ずしも【かならずしも】 not always; not necessarily; not all; not entirely
評判【ひょうばん】 fame; reputation; popularity / rumour (rumor); talk
負け【まけ】 defeat; loss; losing (a game) / failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.) / discount; loss (on a sale)
腹【はら】 abdomen; belly; stomach / womb / one's mind; one's real intentions; one's true motive / courage; nerve; willpower / generosity; magnanimity / feelings; emotions / wide middle part; bulging part / inside; interior; inner part / anti-node / counter for hard roe / counter for containers with bulging middles (pots, vases, etc.)
分ける【わける】 to divide (into); to split (into); to part; to separate; to divide up; to classify; to sort out; to divide out / to share; to distribute; to deal out; to dish out / to distinguish; to discriminate; to differentiate (between) / to break up (a fight); to mediate / to call a draw; to tie / to push one's way through (a crowd) / to sell
文明【ぶんめい】 civilization; civilisation; culture / Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
保存【ほぞん】 preservation; conservation; storage; maintenance / saving (e.g. to disk)
宝【たから】 treasure
豊富【ほうふ】 abundance; wealth; plenty; bounty
棒【ぼう】 pole; rod; stick
幕【まく】 curtain; bunting / act (in play)
満足【まんぞく】 satisfaction; contentment; complacency / sufficient; enough; adequate; proper
免許【めんきょ】 license; permit; licence; certificate
優秀【ゆうしゅう】 superiority; excellence
予測【よそく】 prediction; estimation
容易【ようい】 easy; simple; plain
来【らい】 next (year, etc.) / since (last month, etc.)
理想【りそう】 ideal; ideals
離れる【はなれる】 to be separated; to be apart; to be distant / to leave; to go away / to leave (a job, etc.); to quit; to give up / to lose connection with; to drift away from
陸【りく】 land; shore
留学【りゅうがく】 studying abroad
輪【わ】 ring; circle; loop / hoop / wheel / circle (e.g. of friends)
冷静【れいせい】 calmness; composure; coolness; serenity; presence of mind
礼【れい】 thanks; gratitude / manners; etiquette / bow / reward; gift / ceremony; ritual
論争【ろんそう】 dispute; controversy
化粧【けしょう】 make-up; makeup; cosmetics
傷【きず】 wound; injury; cut; gash; bruise; scratch; scrape; scar / chip; crack; scratch; nick / flaw; defect; weakness; weak point / stain (on one's reputation); disgrace; dishonor; dishonour / (emotional) hurt; hurt feelings
他人【たにん】 another person; other people; others / unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood) / outsider; stranger
端【はし】 end (e.g. of street); tip; point; edge; margin / beginning; start; first / odds and ends; scrap; odd bit; least
敵【てき】 opponent; rival; adversary / menace; danger; threat; enemy
刺激【しげき】 stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation; excitement; thrill
次々【つぎつぎ】 in succession; one by one
必死【ひっし】 frantic; frenetic; desperate / inevitable death / brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
昼食【ちゅうしょく】 lunch; midday meal / food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
ふるさと《故郷》 home town; birthplace; native place; one's old home / ruins; historic remains
王【おう】 king; ruler; sovereign; monarch / tycoon; magnate; champion; master / king (of the senior player)
詩【し】 poem; verse of poetry
実に【じつに】 indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very; quite
依頼【いらい】 request; commission; entrusting (with a matter) / dependence; reliance
一瞬【いっしゅん】 instant; moment; for an instant
印刷【いんさつ】 printing
栄養【えいよう】 nutrition; nourishment
延期【えんき】 postponement; deferment; adjournment
応じる【おうじる】 to respond; to satisfy; to accept; to comply with; to apply for
屋根【やね】 roof
温暖【おんだん】 warm; mild; temperate
温度【おんど】 temperature
家事【かじ】 housework; domestic chores / family affairs; household matters
活用【かつよう】 practical use; application / conjugation; declension; inflection
感動【かんどう】 being deeply moved emotionally; excitement; passion; inspiration; deep emotion; strong impression
缶【かん】 can; tin / canned food
給料【きゅうりょう】 salary; wages; pay
牛【うし】 cattle (Bos taurus); cow; bull; ox; calf / beef / Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
恐怖【きょうふ】 fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare; panic
玉【たま】 ball; sphere; globe; orb / bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet / ball (in sports) / pile (of noodles, etc.) / bullet / bulb (i.e. a light bulb) / lens (of glasses, etc.) / bead (of an abacus) / ball (i.e. a testicle) / gem; jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively); pearl / female entertainer (e.g. a geisha) / person (when commenting on their nature); character / item, funds or person used as part of a plot / egg / coin / precious; beautiful; excellent
金銭【きんせん】 money; cash
苦労【くろう】 trouble; hardship; difficulty; labour; labor; toil; pains / anxiety; worry; concern; cares
軍隊【ぐんたい】 armed forces; military; troops
警告【けいこく】 warning; advice
欠陥【けっかん】 defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage; gap
言語【げんご】 language
虎【とら】 tiger (Panthera tigris) / drunkard; drunk; sot
光景【こうけい】 scene; spectacle; sight; view
高速【こうそく】 high-speed; rapid; express / highway; freeway; expressway; motorway
左右【さゆう】 left and right / influence; control; domination
際【さい】 on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
殺す【ころす】 to kill
支給【しきゅう】 provision; supply; payment; allowance; grant
詩人【しじん】 poet
自殺【じさつ】 suicide
失う【うしなう】 to lose; to part with
主に【おもに】 mainly; primarily
終える【おえる】 to finish / to graduate
宿泊【しゅくはく】 lodging
出来事【できごと】 incident; affair; happening; event
順【じゅん】 order; turn / obedient; docile; submissive; meek
助手【じょしゅ】 assistant; helper / assistant (to a professor)
女王【じょおう】 queen
商売【しょうばい】 trade; business; commerce; transaction; occupation
消防【しょうぼう】 fire fighting / fire department; fire brigade
証明【しょうめい】 proof; verification; certification
賞【しょう】 prize; award
信号【しんごう】 signal; signalling; signaling / traffic light; traffic signal
身長【しんちょう】 height (of body); stature
進学【しんがく】 entering a higher-level school, esp. going on to university
世の中【よのなか】 society; the world; the times
世間【せけん】 world; society; people; the public
先日【せんじつ】 the other day; a few days ago
泉【いずみ】 spring; fountain
前進【ぜんしん】 advance; moving forward; progress
組【くみ】 set (of items) / group (of people); class (of students); company (esp. construction); family (i.e. mafia); team / typesetting; composition
騒音【そうおん】 noise
大いに【おおいに】 very; much; greatly; a lot of
単なる【たんなる】 mere; simple; sheer
単に【たんに】 simply; merely; only; solely
知恵【ちえ】 wisdom; wit; sagacity; sense; intelligence / prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
茶【ちゃ】 tea / tea plant (Camellia sinensis) / tea preparation; making tea / brown / mockery
通過【つうか】 passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); transit / passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage / passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
登山【とざん】 mountain climbing
都会【とかい】 city / Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
働き【はたらき】 work; labor; labour / achievement; performance; ability; talent / salary; income; earnings / action; activity; workings; function; operation; movement; motion / conjugation; inflection
同僚【どうりょう】 coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate
熱帯【ねったい】 tropics
拍手【はくしゅ】 clapping hands; applause
肌【はだ】 skin / body (in the context of intimate bodily contact) / surface; grain (e.g. of wood); texture / disposition; temperament; character; type
飯【めし】 cooked rice / meal; food / one's livelihood
悲劇【ひげき】 tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play / tragedy; calamity; disaster
付き合い【つきあい】 association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
布【ぬの】 cloth / bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
墓【はか】 gravesite; tomb
暮れ【くれ】 sunset; sundown; nightfall; dusk / end; close / year-end; end of the year
本物【ほんもの】 genuine article; real thing; real deal
迷惑【めいわく】 trouble; bother; annoyance; nuisance; inconvenience / to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)
離婚【りこん】 divorce
恋【こい】 (romantic) love
一生【いっしょう】 whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era / (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
流行【りゅうこう】 fashion; fad; vogue; craze / prevalence (e.g. of a disease)
思い出【おもいで】 memories; recollections; reminiscence
香り【かおり】 aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
砂漠【さばく】 desert
祭【まつり】 festival; feast
級【きゅう】 class (e.g. school); grade; rank / kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
現れ【あらわれ】 embodiment; manifestation; materialization; materialisation; expression; indication
職【しょく】 job; work; employment; occupation; position / duties / trade; skill
案内【あんない】 guidance; leading (the way); showing around / information; notice; notification / announcement (of one's arrival) / invitation / acquaintance; knowledge
囲む【かこむ】 to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fence; to wall in / to besiege; to lay siege to / to play (go, shogi, etc.)
胃【い】 stomach / Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
印【しるし】 mark; sign / symbol; emblem / badge; crest; flag / evidence; proof / token (of gratitude, affection, etc.)
煙【けむり】 smoke; fumes
奥【おく】 inner part; inside; interior; depths (e.g. of a forest); back (of a house, drawer, etc.); bottom (e.g. of one's heart); recesses; heart
可【か】 passable; acceptable; tolerable; fair
家賃【やちん】 rent
覚悟【かくご】 resolution; resignation; readiness; preparedness
間違い【まちがい】 mistake; error; blunder / accident; mishap; trouble / improper conduct (e.g. between man and woman); indiscretion
岸【きし】 bank; coast; shore
ともに《共に》 together; jointly / at the same time; with; as ...; including; along with / both
経由【けいゆ】 going through; going via; going by way of
誇り【ほこり】 pride; boast
誤り【あやまり】 error; mistake; slip; bug
誤解【ごかい】 misunderstanding
合わせる【あわせる】 to match (rhythm, speed, etc.) / to join together; to unite; to combine; to add up / to face; to be opposite (someone) / to compare; to check with / to cause to meet (e.g. an unpleasant fate) / to place together; to connect; to overlap / to mix; to combine / to put blade to blade; to fight
収穫【しゅうかく】 harvest; crop; ingathering / fruits (of one's labors); results
修理【しゅうり】 repair; mending; fixing; servicing
宿【やど】 lodging; inn; hotel / house; home; dwelling / home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
詳しい【くわしい】 detailed; full; accurate / knowing very well; well-acquainted; well-informed
新鮮【しんせん】 fresh
進歩【しんぽ】 progress; advance; improvement; development
睡眠【すいみん】 sleep
成人【せいじん】 adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup / becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)
正直【しょうじき】 honest; frank; candid; straightforward / honestly; frankly
想像【そうぞう】 imagination; guess
巣【す】 nest; rookery; breeding place; hive / den / haunt / (spider's) web
速度【そくど】 speed; velocity; rate
多少【たしょう】 more or less; somewhat; a little; a few; some / amount; quantity
仲【なか】 relation; relationship
天然【てんねん】 nature; spontaneity / natural airhead
塔【とう】 tower; steeple; spire / stupa; pagoda; dagoba
突然【とつぜん】 abrupt; sudden; unexpected
年代【ねんだい】 age; era; period; date
梅【うめ】 Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; Chinese plum / lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
半ば【なかば】 middle; half; semi; halfway; partly
疲れ【つかれ】 tiredness; fatigue
瓶【びん】 bottle; jar; decanter; flagon; phial; vial
不自由【ふじゆう】 discomfort; inconvenience / poverty; want; destitution / disability; impairment (physical, mental, etc.)
普段【ふだん】 usual; normal; everyday; habitual; ordinary / usually; normally; generally; habitually; always
平等【びょうどう】 equality; impartiality; evenness
柄【がら】 pattern; design / body build; figure; physique / essential qualities; character; nature / appropriate to; fitting of; suitable for
弁当【べんとう】 bento; Japanese box lunch
堀【ほり】 moat; fosse / canal; ditch
妙【みょう】 strange; weird; odd; curious / wonder; mystery; miracle; excellence / cleverness; adroitness; knack; skill
問い【とい】 question; query
勇気【ゆうき】 courage; bravery; valour; valor; nerve; boldness
予報【よほう】 forecast; prediction
恋人【こいびと】 lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
一言【ひとこと】 single word; a few words; brief comment
方々【かたがた】 they (of people); gentlemen (of the ...) / you (usu. plural) / various
なんでも《何でも》 any; whatever one likes; by all means; anything; everything / I am told; I understand; they say; I hear
始まり【はじまり】 origin; beginning
稲【いね】 rice plant
王子【おうじ】 prince / subordinate Kumano shrine
下り【くだり】 down-train (going away from Tokyo) / down-slope; downward going / southbound
家具【かぐ】 furniture
課【か】 lesson / section (in an organization); division; department / counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
芽【め】 sprout
感謝【かんしゃ】 thanks; gratitude
観察【かんさつ】 observation; survey; watching
岩【いわ】 rock; boulder / crag; cliff / anchor
気候【きこう】 climate
気味【きみ】 sensation; feeling / tendency; propensity
鬼【おに】 oni; ogre; demon / spirit of a deceased person / ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.) / it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.) / Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) / very; extremely; super-
休憩【きゅうけい】 rest; break; recess; intermission
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
禁煙【きんえん】 abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking / No Smoking!; Smoking Prohibited!
筋肉【きんにく】 muscle; sinew
金曜【きんよう】 Friday
苦手【にがて】 poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at) / dislike (of); difficult to deal with
備える【そなえる】 to furnish with; to equip with; to provide; to install / to prepare for; to make preparations for; to make provision for / to possess (all that is needed); to be endowed with; to be equipped with / to be born with; to have since birth
結ぶ【むすぶ】 to tie; to bind; to link / to bear (fruit) / to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to conclude / to connect (two distant places) / to close tightly; to purse (e.g. lips) / to unite (with); to ally; to join hands
見送り【みおくり】 seeing one off; farewell; escort
好み【このみ】 liking; taste; choice
豪華【ごうか】 wonderful; gorgeous; splendor; splendour; pomp; extravagance
国語【こくご】 national language / Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) / native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
座席【ざせき】 seat
才能【さいのう】 talent; ability
酸素【さんそ】 oxygen (O)
支払う【しはらう】 to pay
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
祝い【いわい】 congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival; congratulatory gift
出会い【であい】 meeting; rendezvous; encounter / confluence
冗談【じょうだん】 jest; joke; funny story
針【はり】 needle; pin / hook / stinger; thorn / hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer / staple (for a stapler) / needlework; sewing / malice / counter for stitches
図【ず】 drawing; picture; diagram; figure; illustration; chart; graph / sight; scene
尊重【そんちょう】 respect; esteem; regard
袋【ふくろ】 bag; sack; pouch / skin of an orange (and other like fruits) / dead end / plot of land surrounded by water
大部分【だいぶぶん】 most part; greater part; majority
通行【つうこう】 passage (of people, traffic); passing / common usage
天候【てんこう】 weather
到着【とうちゃく】 arrival
独身【どくしん】 bachelorhood; single; unmarried; celibate