JLPT N1 Vocabulary
3,463 words
| Word | Reading | Romaji | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 同感 | どうかん | dōkan | agreement; same opinion; same feeling; sympathy; concurrence |
| 風車 | かざぐるま | kazaguruma | 1. windmill; 2. pinwheel |
| 何処か | どこか | dokoka | somewhere; anywhere; in some respects |
| 早める | はやめる | hayameru | to hasten; to quicken; to expedite; to precipitate; to accelerate |
| 賭け | かけ | kake | betting; gambling; a gamble |
| 興じる | きょうじる | kyōjiru | to amuse oneself; to make merry |
| 磁気 | じき | jiki | magnetism |
| 若しかして | もしかして | moshikashite | perhaps; possibly |
| 彼方此方 | あちこち | achikochi | here and there |
| 視点 | してん | shiten | opinion; point of view; visual point |
| 開発 | かいはつ | kaihatsu | development; exploitation |
| 彼の | あの | ano | that over there |
| 滞納 | たいのう | tainō | non-payment; default |
| 果て | はて | hate | the end; the extremity; the limit(s); the result |
| 長閑 | のどか | nodoka | tranquil; calm; quiet |
| 負う | おう | ō | to bear; to owe |
| 首脳 | しゅのう | shunō | head; brains |
| 一筋 | ひとすき | hitosuki | a line; earnestly; blindly; straightforwardly |
| 落ち着き | おちつき | ochitsuki | calm; composure |
| 業者 | ぎょうしゃ | gyōsha | trader; merchant |
| 蛋白質 | たんぱくしつ | tanpakushitsu | protein |
| タイムリー | — | taimurī | timely; run-batted-in (baseball); RBI |
| 後悔 | こうかい | kōkai | regret; repentance |
| 購読 | こうどく | kōdoku | subscription (e.g. magazine) |
| 嗜好 | しこう | shikō | taste; liking; preference |
| 診療 | しんりょう | shinryō | medical examination and treatment; diagnosis |
| 班 | はん | han | group; party; section (mil) |
| 保管 | ほかん | hokan | charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage |
| スチーム | — | suchīmu | steam |
| 配列 | はいれつ | hairetsu | arrangement; array (programming) |
| 染める | そめる | someru | to dye; to colour |
| 途上 | とじょう | tojō | en route; half way |
| 店 | てん | ten | store; shop; establishment |
| 刑 | けい | kei | penalty; sentence; punishment |
| 野党 | やとう | yatō | opposition party |
| 徒歩 | とほ | toho | walking; going on foot |
| 伝来 | でんらい | denrai | ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down |
| トーン | — | tōn | tone |
| カメラマン | — | kameraman | cameraman |
| 抗議 | こうぎ | kōgi | protest; objection |
| 自惚れ | うぬぼれ | unubore | pretension; conceit; hubris |
| 齎らす | もたらす | motarasu | to bring; to take; to bring about |
| 優越 | ゆうえつ | yūetsu | supremacy; predominance; being superior to |
| 不服 | ふふく | fufuku | dissatisfaction; discontent; disapproval; objection; complaint; protest; disagreement |
| 開催 | かいさい | kaisai | holding a meeting; open an exhibition |
| 内閣 | ないかく | naikaku | cabinet; (government) ministry |
| 正当 | せいとう | seitō | just; justifiable; right; due; proper; equitable; reasonable; legitimate; lawful |
| 垢 | あか | aka | dirt; filth |
| 先先月 | せんせんげつ | sensengetsu | month before last |
| 怠慢 | たいまん | taiman | negligence; procrastination; carelessness |
| 無口 | むくち | mukuchi | reticence |
| ご馳走 | ごちそう | gochisō | feast; treating (someone) |
| ポット | — | potto | pot |
| 閲覧 | えつらん | etsuran | inspection; reading |
| 阻む | はばむ | habamu | to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct; to oppose; to thwart |
| 使命 | しめい | shimei | mission; errand; message |
| 三日月 | みかずき | mikazuki | new moon; crescent moon |
| 意地 | いじ | iji | disposition; spirit; willpower; obstinacy; backbone; appetite |
| 音 | ね | ne | sound; note |
| 造り | つくり | tsukuri | make up; structure; physique |
| 忠告 | ちゅうこく | chūkoku | advice; warning |
| 脈 | みゃく | myaku | pulse |
| 向上 | こうじょう | kōjō | elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress |
| 任務 | にんむ | ninmu | duty; function; office; mission; task |
| 成熟 | せいじゅく | seijuku | maturity; ripeness |
| 余程 | よっぽど | yoppodo | very; greatly; much; to a large extent; quite |
| 纏め | まとめ | matome | settlement; conclusion |
| チャンネル | — | channeru | a channel |
| 心掛け | こころがけ | kokorogake | readiness; intention; aim |
| 雑談 | ざつだん | zatsudan | chatting; idle talk |
| 箪笥 | たんす | tansu | chest of drawers |
| 処分 | しょぶん | shobun | disposal; dealing; punishment |
| 風習 | ふうしゅう | fūshū | custom |
| 取り引き | とりひき | torihiki | transactions; dealings; business |
| 仕上げ | しあげ | shiage | end; finishing touches; being finished |
| 黴菌 | ばいきん | baikin | bacteria; germ(s) |
| 側 | かわ | kawa | side; row; surroundings; part; (watch) case |
| 瞑る | つぶる | tsuburu | to close the eyes |
| 満月 | まんげつ | mangetsu | full moon |
| 不当 | ふとう | futō | injustice; impropriety; unreasonableness; undeservedness; unfair; invalid |
| 度忘れ | どわすれ | dowasure | lapse of memory; forget for a moment |
| 行き違い | いきちがい | ikichigai | misunderstanding; estrangement; disagreement; crossing without meeting; going astray |
| 独創 | どくそう | dokusō | originality |
| 本名 | ほんみょう | honmyō | real name |
| 名誉 | めいよ | meiyo | honor; credit; prestige |
| 兆 | きざし | kizashi | signs; omen; symptoms |
| 正常 | せいじょう | seijō | normalcy; normality; normal |
| 取り締まる | とりしまる | torishimaru | to manage; to control; to supervise |
| 可愛がる | かわいがる | kawaigaru | to love; to be affectionate |
| この頃 | このごろ | konogoro | recently |
| 喧しい | やかましい | yakamashii | noisy; strict; fussy |
| 葬る | ほうむる | hōmuru | to bury; to inter; to entomb; to consign to oblivion; to shelve |
| 印鑑 | いんかん | inkan | stamp; seal |
| 大水 | おおみず | ōmizu | flood |
| 好況 | こうきょう | kōkyō | prosperous conditions; healthy economy |
| 人質 | ひとじち | hitojichi | hostage; prisoner |
| 掲載 | けいさい | keisai | appearance (e.g. article in paper) |
| 規模 | きぼ | kibo | scale; scope; plan; structure |
| 疎か | おろそか | orosoka | neglect; negligence; carelessness |
| 見方 | みかた | mikata | viewpoint |
| 異議 | いぎ | igi | objection; dissent; protest |
| 辞職 | じしょく | jishoku | resignation |
| 沿う | そう | sō | to run along; to follow |
| 真ん中 | まんなか | mannaka | middle; centre; mid-way |
| 布巾 | ふきん | fukin | tea-towel; dish cloth |
| 閉口 | へいこう | heikō | shut mouth |
| 如何にも | いかにも | ikanimo | indeed; really; phrase meaning agreement |
| 揺さぶる | ゆさぶる | yusaburu | to shake; to jolt; to rock; to swing |
| 設定 | せってい | settei | establishment; creation |
| 絨毯 | じゅうたん | jūtan | carpet |
| 背負う | しょう | shō | to be burdened with; to carry on back or shoulder |
| 大胆 | だいたん | daitan | bold; daring; audacious |
| 名付ける | なづける | nazukeru | to name (someone) |
| ファイト | — | faito | fight |
| 夜中 | やちゅう | yachū | all night; the whole night |
| 辛うじて | かろうじて | karōjite | barely; narrowly; just manage to do st |
| しくじる | — | shikujiru | to fail; to fall through; to blunder |
| 模範 | もはん | mohan | exemplar; exemplification; exemplum; model; example |
| 余り | あんまり | anmari | not very (this form only used as adverb); not much; remainder; rest; remnant; surplus; balance; excess; rema |
| ドライ | — | dorai | dry |
| 粥 | かゆ | kayu | (rice) gruel |
| 若しも | もしも | moshimo | if |
| 先行 | せんこう | senkō | preceding; going first |
| 有力 | ゆうりょく | yūryoku | 1. influence; prominence; 2. potent |
| 明瞭 | めいりょう | meiryō | clarity |
| 穂 | ほ | ho | ear (of plant); head (of plant) |
| 横綱 | よこづな | yokozuna | sumo grand champion |
| 投入 | とうにゅう | tōnyū | throw; investment; making (an electrical circuit) |
| 察する | さっする | sassuru | to guess; to sense; to presume; to judge; to sympathize with |
| 公 | おおやけ | ōyake | official; public; formal; open; governmental |
| 不良 | ふりょう | furyō | badness; delinquent; inferiority; failure |
| 没落 | ぼつらく | botsuraku | ruin; fall; collapse |
| 取り組む | とりくむ | torikumu | to tackle; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to come to grips with |
| 兎角 | とかく | tokaku | anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; this and that; many; be apt to |
| 審査 | しんさ | shinsa | judging; inspection; examination; investigation |
| 上演 | じょうえん | jōen | performance (e.g. music) |
| 違える | ちがえる | chigaeru | to change |
| 重んじる | おもんじる | omonjiru | to respect; to honor; to esteem; to prize |
| 捗る | はかどる | hakadoru | to make progress; to move right ahead (with the work); to advance |
| ドリル | — | doriru | drill |
| 登校 | とうこう | tōkō | attendance (at school) |
| 効率 | こうりつ | kōritsu | efficiency |
| 懐く | なつく | natsuku | to become emotionally attached |
| レギュラー | — | regyurā | regular |
| 土木 | どぼく | doboku | public works |
| 変革 | へんかく | henkaku | change; reform; revolution; upheaval; (the) Reformation |
| 大筋 | おおすじ | ōsuji | outline; summary |
| 人 | じん | jin | man; person; people |
| 何処 | どこ | doko | where; what place |
| フォーム | — | fōmu | foam; form |
| 取り巻く | とりまく | torimaku | to surround; to circle; to enclose |
| 確信 | かくしん | kakushin | conviction; confidence |
| 軍服 | ぐんぷく | gunpuku | military or naval uniform |
| 創造 | そうぞう | sōzō | creation |
| 膳 | ぜん | zen | (small) table; tray; meal |
| 総 | そう | sō | whole; all; general; gross |
| 練る | ねる | neru | to knead; to work over; to polish up |
| と | — | to | 1. if (conjunction); 2. promoted pawn (shogi) (abbr) |
| 朝寝坊 | あさねぼう | asanebō | oversleeping; late riser |
| 梅干 | うめぼし | umeboshi | dried plum |
| 乗り換え | のりかえ | norikae | transfer (trains buses etc.) |
| 戸 | こ | ko | counter for houses |
| 風土 | ふうど | fūdo | natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features |
| 先に | さきに | sakini | before; earlier than; ahead; beyond; away; previously; recently |
| 膜 | まく | maku | membrane; film |
| 先だって | せんだって | sendatte | recently; the other day |
| 馬鹿馬鹿しい | ばかばかしい | bakabakashii | stupid |
| お蔭 | おかげ | okage | (your) backing; assistance |
| 手本 | てほん | tehon | model; pattern |
| コーナー | — | kōnā | corner |
| 福 | ふく | fuku | good fortune |
| 巧妙 | こうみょう | kōmyō | ingenious; skillful; clever; deft |
| 無言 | むごん | mugon | silence |
| 移民 | いみん | imin | emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant |
| バー | — | bā | bar |
| 専修 | せんしゅう | senshū | specialization |
| タイマー | — | taimā | timer |
| 本体 | ほんたい | hontai | substance; real form; object of worship |
| 育ち | そだち | sodachi | breeding; growth |
| 報酬 | ほうしゅう | hōshū | remuneration; recompense; reward; toll |
| 緩和 | かんわ | kanwa | relief; mitigation |
| 出血 | しゅっけつ | shukketsu | bleeding; haemorrhage |
| 意向 | いこう | ikō | intention; idea; inclination |
| 諸君 | しょくん | shokun | Gentlemen!; Ladies! |
| 自在 | じざい | jizai | freely; at will |
| 貴女 | あなた | anata | you; lady |
| 五月蝿い | うるさい | urusai | noisy; loud; fussy |
| 排除 | はいじょ | haijo | exclusion; removal; rejection |
| 負傷 | ふしょう | fushō | injury; wound |
| 遅れ | おくれ | okure | delay; lag |
| 一々 | いちいち | ichiichi | one by one; separately |
| お菜 | おかず | okazu | side dish; accompaniment for rice dishes |
| お使い | おつかい | otsukai | errand |
| 手分け | てわけ | tewake | division of labour |
| 即座に | そくざに | sokuzani | immediately; right away |
| 叫び | さけび | sakebi | shout; scream; outcry |
| 年生 | ねんせい | nensei | pupil in .... year; student in .... year |
| 放り出す | ほうりだす | hōridasu | to throw out; to fire; to expel; to give up; to abandon; to neglect |
| 箇条書き | かじょうがき | kajōgaki | itemized form; itemization |
| 開拓 | かいたく | kaitaku | reclamation (of wasteland); cultivation; pioneer |
| 鉱山 | こうざん | kōzan | mine (ore) |
| 何々 | どれどれ | doredore | which (emphatic) |
| 経過 | けいか | keika | passage; expiration; progress |
| 挑む | いどむ | idomu | to challenge; to contend for; to make love to |
| ドライクリーニング | — | doraikurīningu | dry cleaning |
| 箇所 | かしょ | kasho | passage; place; point; part |
| 志望 | しぼう | shibō | wish; desire; ambition |
| 負担 | ふたん | futan | burden; charge; responsibility |
| 大衆 | たいしゅう | taishū | general public |
| 現われる | あらわれる | arawareru | to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to come out; to embody; to materialize; to express oneself |
| 妬む | ねたむ | netamu | to be jealous; to be envious |
| 味覚 | みかく | mikaku | taste; palate; sense of taste |
| 究極 | きゅうきょく | kyūkyoku | ultimate; final; eventual |
| 誤魔化す | ごまかす | gomakasu | to deceive; to falsify; to misrepresent |
| 曖昧 | あいまい | aimai | vague; ambiguous |
| 本気 | ほんき | honki | seriousness; truth; sanctity |
| 伊井 | いい | ii | that one; Italy |
| 煌びやか | きらびやか | kirabiyaka | gorgeous; gaudy; dazzling; gay |
| 溜まり | たまり | tamari | collected things; gathering place; arrears |
| 謝絶 | しゃぜつ | shazetsu | refusal |
| 植わる | うわる | uwaru | to be planted |
| 雑 | ざつ | zatsu | rough; crude |
| 持ち切り | もちきり | mochikiri | hot topic; talk of the town |
| 農耕 | のうこう | nōkō | farming; agriculture |
| 暴動 | ぼうどう | bōdō | insurrection; rebellion; revolt; riot; uprising |
| 宝器 | ほうき | hōki | treasured article or vessel; outstanding individual |
| 最善 | さいぜん | saizen | the very best |
| 城下 | じょうか | jōka | land near the castle |
| 愛憎 | あいにく | ainiku | likes and dislikes |
| 結束 | けっそく | kessoku | union; unity |
| 若干 | じゃっかん | jakkan | some; few; number of |
| 遠ざかる | とおざかる | tōzakaru | to go far off |
| 継ぎ目 | つぎめ | tsugime | a joint; joining point |
| ほっと | — | hotto | feel relieved |
| 産婦人科 | さんふじんか | sanfujinka | maternity and gynecology department |
| 免れる | まぬかれる | manukareru | to escape from; to be rescued from; to avoid; to evade; to avert; to elude; to be exempted; to be relieved |
| 第 | だい | dai | ordinal |
| 漏らす | もらす | morasu | to let leak; to reveal |
| 意図 | いと | ito | intention; aim; design |
| 無断 | むだん | mudan | without permission; without notice |
| 出演 | しゅつえん | shutsuen | performance; stage appearance |
| 暇 | いとま | itoma | free time; leisure; leave; spare time; farewell |
| 奨励 | しょうれい | shōrei | encouragement; promotion; message; address |
| 部下 | ぶか | buka | subordinate person |
| 剃る | する | suru | to shave |
| 舞う | まう | mau | to dance; to flutter about; to revolve |
| 運営 | うんえい | un'ei | management; administration; operation |
| 華やか | はなやか | hanayaka | gay; showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid |
| 実質 | じっしつ | jisshitsu | substance; essence |
| 切っ掛け | きっかけ | kikkake | chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus; occasion |
| 視察 | しさつ | shisatsu | inspection; observation |
| 屈折 | くっせつ | kussetsu | bending; indentation; refraction |
| 大部 | たいぶ | taibu | most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly; a good deal; much |
| 静止 | せいし | seishi | stillness; repose; standing still |
| 家計 | かけい | kakei | household economy; family finances |
| 作物 | さくぶつ | sakubutsu | literary work |
| 投げ出す | なげだす | nagedasu | to throw down; to abandon; to sacrifice; to throw out |
| 詐欺 | さぎ | sagi | fraud; swindle |
| 此れ | これ | kore | this |
| 箇箇 | ここ | koko | individual; separate |
| 保守 | ほしゅ | hoshu | conservative; maintaining |
| 時差 | じさ | jisa | time difference |
| 管 | かん | kan | pipe; tube |
| 変動 | へんどう | hendō | change; fluctuation |
| 問う | とう | tō | to ask; to question; to charge (i.e. with a crime); to accuse; without regard to (neg) |
| 継ぐ | つぐ | tsugu | to succeed |
| 打開 | だかい | dakai | break in the deadlock |
| 待遇 | たいぐう | taigū | treatment; reception |
| 活ける | いける | ikeru | to arrange (flowers) |
| 仕入れる | しいれる | shiireru | to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure |
| ミリ | — | miri | milli-; 10^-3 |
| 判定 | はんてい | hantei | judgement; decision; award; verdict |
| 前提 | ぜんてい | zentei | preamble; premise; reason; prerequisite |
| 弛み | たるみ | tarumi | slack; slackening; dullness; letdown |
| 跡継ぎ | あとつぎ | atotsugi | heir; successor |
| 誘惑 | ゆうわく | yūwaku | temptation; allurement; lure |
| 背く | そむく | somuku | to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe |
| 遭難 | そうなん | sōnan | disaster; shipwreck; accident |
| 手遅れ | ておくれ | teokure | too late; belated treatment |
| 束縛 | そくばく | sokubaku | restraint; shackles; restriction; confinement; binding |
| 蝶 | ちょう | chō | butterfly |
| 頻りに | しきりに | shikirini | frequently; repeatedly; incessantly; eagerly |
| 拐う | さらう | sarau | to carry off; to run away with; to kidnap; to abduct |
| 酷い | ひどい | hidoi | cruel; awful; severe; very bad; serious; terrible; heavy; violent |
| 丁々 | とうとう | tōtō | clashing of swords; felling of trees; ringing of an ax |
| 自信 | じしん | jishin | self-confidence |
| 決行 | けっこう | kekkō | doing (with resolve); carrying out (i.e. a plan) |
| 措置 | そち | sochi | measure; step |
| どうやら | — | dōyara | it seems like; somehow or other |
| 明白 | あからさま | akarasama | obvious; overt; plainly; frankly |
| 向き | むき | muki | direction; situation; exposure; aspect; suitability |
| インフレ | — | infure | inflation |
| 切れ目 | きれめ | kireme | break; pause; gap; end; rift; interruption; cut; section; notch; incision; end (of a task) |
| 諮る | はかる | hakaru | to consult with; to confer |
| 得点 | とくてん | tokuten | score; points made; marks obtained; runs |
| 憤慨 | ふんがい | fungai | indignation; resentment |
| 獲物 | えもの | emono | game; spoils; trophy |
| 主人公 | しゅじんこう | shujinkō | protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household |
| 浴室 | よくしつ | yokushitsu | bathroom; bath |
| 施設 | しせつ | shisetsu | institution; establishment; facility; (army) engineer |
| 不意 | ふい | fui | sudden; abrupt; unexpected; unforeseen |
| 偏る | かたよる | katayoru | to be one-sided; to incline; to be partial; to be prejudiced; to lean; to be biased |
| 初 | はつ | hatsu | first; new |
| 御 | ご | go | go-; honourable |
| コントラスト | — | kontorasuto | contrast |
| 相対 | あいたい | aitai | confrontation; facing; between ourselves; no third party; tete-a-tete |
| 壷 | つぼ | tsubo | tsubo jar; pot; vase |
| 産む | うむ | umu | to give birth; to deliver; to produce |
| 磁器 | じき | jiki | porcelain; china |
| 変遷 | へんせん | hensen | change; transition; vicissitudes |
| 毟る | むしる | mushiru | to pluck; to pick; to tear |
| 料 | りょう | ryō | material; charge; rate; fee |
| 落ち込む | おちこむ | ochikomu | to fall into; to feel down (sad) |
| 控室 | ひかえしつ | hikaeshitsu | waiting room |
| おおい | — | ōi | hey! |
| 持続 | じぞく | jizoku | continuation |
| 貫禄 | かんろく | kanroku | presence; dignity |
| 児 | こ | ko | child; the young of animals |
| 良い | いい | ii | good |
| 本格 | ほんかく | honkaku | propriety; fundamental rules |
| 為さる | なさる | nasaru | to do |
| 栽培 | さいばい | saibai | cultivation |
| 配給 | はいきゅう | haikyū | distribution (eg. films rice) |
| 手当て | てあて | teate | allowance; compensation; treatment; medical care |
| 細胞 | さいぼう | saibō | cell (biology) |
| 議案 | ぎあん | gian | legislative bill |
| 演じる | えんじる | enjiru | to perform (a play); to play (a part); to act (a part); to commit (a blunder) |
| 実業家 | じつぎょうか | jitsugyōka | industrialist; businessman |
| 軍艦 | ぐんかん | gunkan | warship; battleship |
| 恥 | はじ | haji | shame; embarrassment |
| 勤まる | つとまる | tsutomaru | to be fit for; to be equal to; to function properly |
| 名高い | なだかい | nadakai | famous; celebrated; well-known |
| 前置き | まえおき | maeoki | preface; introduction |
| 灰皿 | はいさら | haisara | ashtray |
| 模倣 | もほう | mohō | imitation; copying |
| 填まる | はまる | hamaru | to get into; to go into; to fit; to be fit for; to suit; to fall into; to plunge into; to be deceived; to be |
| 加留多 | かるた | karuta | (pt:) (n) playing cards (pt: carta) |
| だらけ | — | darake | implying (negatively) that something is full of e.g. mistakes |
| 返答 | へんとう | hentō | reply |
| 藻掻く | もがく | mogaku | to struggle; to wriggle; to be impatient |
| 下吏 | かり | kari | lower official |
| 格 | かく | kaku | status; character; case |
| 出社 | しゅっしゃ | shussha | arrival (in a country at work etc.) |
| ボルト | — | boruto | volt; bolt |
| 奮闘 | ふんとう | funtō | hard struggle; strenuous effort |
| 創刊 | そうかん | sōkan | launching (e.g. newspaper); first issue |
| 取り立てる | とりたてる | toritateru | to collect; to extort; to appoint; to promote |
| 再現 | さいげん | saigen | reappearance; reproduction; return; revival |
| 員 | いん | in | member |
| 引き受ける | ひきうける | hikiukeru | to undertake; to take up; to take over; to be responsible for; to guarantee; to contract (disease) |
| 長 | おさ | osa | chief; head |
| 介護 | かいご | kaigo | nursing |
| あられ | — | arare | kind of cookie; cartoon character |
| 庶民 | しょみん | shomin | masses; common people |
| 面する | めんする | mensuru | to face on; to look out on to |
| 天才 | てんさい | tensai | genius; prodigy; natural gift |
| 仕様 | しよう | shiyō | way; method; resource; remedy; (technical) specification |
| 制定 | せいてい | seitei | enactment; establishment; creation |
| 処罰 | しょばつ | shobatsu | punishment |
| 部 | ぶ | bu | department; part; category; counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine |
| 徹する | てっする | tessuru | to sink in; to penetrate; to devote oneself; to believe in; to go through; to do intently and exclusively |
| 含嗽 | うがい | ugai | gargle; rinse mouth |
| 鉛 | なまり | namari | lead (the metal) |
| 根本 | こんぽん | konpon | origin; source; foundation; root; base; principle |
| 沸騰 | ふっとう | futtō | boiling; seething |
| 神秘 | しんぴ | shinpi | mystery |
| 気流 | きりゅう | kiryū | atmospheric current |
| 諄い | くどい | kudoi | verbose; importunate; heavy (taste) |
| 濯ぐ | すすぐ | susugu | to rinse; to wash out |
| 沈黙 | ちんもく | chinmoku | silence; reticence |
| 沈殿 | ちんでん | chinden | precipitation; settlement |
| 偖 | さて | sate | well; now; then |
| 始末 | しまつ | shimatsu | management; dealing; settlement; cleaning up afterwards |
| でかい | — | dekai | huge |
| 着色 | ちゃくしょく | chakushoku | colouring; coloring |
| 任命 | にんめい | ninmei | appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation |
| 衆議院 | しゅうぎいん | shūgiin | Lower House; House of Representatives |
| 判決 | はんけつ | hanketsu | judicial decision; judgement; sentence; decree |
| 主導 | しゅどう | shudō | main leadership |
| 折り返す | おりかえす | orikaesu | to turn up; to fold back |
| 一息 | ひといき | hitoiki | puffy; a breath; a pause; an effort |
| クレーン | — | kurēn | crane |
| 契る | ちぎる | chigiru | to pledge; to promise; to swear |
| カーペット | — | kāpetto | carpet |
| 傑 | けつ | ketsu | excellence |
| 切ない | せつない | setsunai | painful; trying; oppressive; suffocating |
| 守備 | しゅび | shubi | defense |
| 愚か | おろか | oroka | foolish; stupid |
| 脅かす | おどかす | odokasu | to threaten; to coerce |
| 当たり | あたり | atari | hit; success; reaching the mark; per ...; vicinity; neighborhood |
| 戦 | いくさ | ikusa | war; battle; campaign; fight |
| 不振 | ふしん | fushin | dullness; depression; slump; stagnation |
| 便宜 | べんぎ | bengi | convenience; accommodation; advantage; expedience |
| 涸れる | かれる | kareru | to dry up; to run out |
| 手数 | てかず | tekazu | number of moves; trouble |
| 絡む | からむ | karamu | to entangle; to entwine |
| 興奮 | こうふん | kōfun | excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal |
| 伝言 | つてごと | tsutegoto | verbal message; rumor; word |
| 何気ない | なにげない | nanigenai | casual; unconcerned |
| 趣旨 | しゅし | shushi | object; meaning |
| 原書 | げんしょ | gensho | original document |
| 感染 | かんせん | kansen | infection; contagion |
| 打ち合わせる | うちあわせる | uchiawaseru | to knock together; to arrange |
| 苛々 | いらいら | iraira | getting nervous; irritation |
| 難い | かたい | katai | difficult; hard |
| 錯覚 | さっかく | sakkaku | optical illusion; hallucination |
| 万 | ばん | ban | many; all |
| 堪える | こたえる | kotaeru | to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with; to support; to withstand; to resist; to brave; to be fit for; t |
| 碌な | ろくな | rokuna | satisfactory; decent |
| 梯子 | ていし | teishi | ladder; stairs |
| 信任 | しんにん | shinnin | trust; confidence; credence |
| 歩む | あゆむ | ayumu | to walk; to go on foot |
| 織 | おり | ori | weave; weaving; woven item |
| 国定 | こくてい | kokutei | state-sponsored; national |
| 斑 | ぶち | buchi | spots; speckles; mottles |
| 行員 | こういん | kōin | bank clerk |
| チームワーク | — | chīmuwāku | teamwork |
| 制 | せい | sei | system; organization; imperial command; laws; regulation; control; government; suppression; restraint; holdin |
| 際 | きわ | kiwa | edge; brink; verge; side |
| ぶら下げる | ぶらさげる | burasageru | to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing |
| 一人 | いちにん | ichinin | one person |
| 面皰 | にきび | nikibi | pimple; acne |
| ソックス | — | sokkusu | socks |
| 等 | とう | tō | et cetera; etc.; and the like |
| お蔭様で | おかげさまで | okagesamade | Thanks to god; thanks to you |
| セレモニー | — | seremonī | ceremony |
| 出生 | しゅっしょう | shusshō | birth |
| ナイター | — | naitā | game under lights (e.g. baseball) (lit: nighter); night game |
| 滅亡 | めつぼう | metsubō | downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction |
| くっ付ける | くっつける | kuttsukeru | to attach |
| 今晩は | こんばんは | konbanha | good evening |
| 炭素 | たんそ | tanso | carbon (C) |
| 善し悪し | よしあし | yoshiashi | good or bad; merits or demerits; quality; suitability |
| 蕾 | つぼみ | tsubomi | bud; flower bud |
| 円滑 | えんかつ | enkatsu | harmony; smoothness |
| 発病 | はつびょう | hatsubyō | attack (disease) |
| 執着 | しゅうじゃく | shūjaku | attachment; adhesion; tenacity |
| ちょくちょく | — | chokuchoku | often; frequently; now and then; occasionally |
| 未婚 | みこん | mikon | unmarried |
| 嬢 | じょう | jō | young woman |
| ホール | — | hōru | hall; hole |
| 頑丈 | がんじょう | ganjō | solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy |
| 号 | ごう | gō | number; issue |
| 抑圧 | よくあつ | yokuatsu | check; restraint; oppression; suppression |
| インテリ | — | interi | egghead; intelligentsia |
| 種々 | くさぐさ | kusagusa | variety |
| カット | — | katto | cut; cutting |
| 素材 | そざい | sozai | raw materials; subject matter |
| 決まり悪い | きまりわるい | kimariwarui | feeling awkward; being ashamed |
| 敏感 | びんかん | binkan | sensibility; susceptibility; sensitive (to); well attuned to |
| 旧事 | くじ | kuji | past events; bygones |
| 一別 | いちべつ | ichibetsu | parting |
| 公然 | こうぜん | kōzen | open (e.g. secret); public; official |
| 粗筋 | あらすじ | arasuji | outline; summary |
| 生計 | せいけい | seikei | livelihood; living |
| 冷淡 | れいたん | reitan | coolness; indifference |
| 此の | この | kono | this |
| 多様 | たよう | tayō | diversity; variety |
| 遣り通す | やりとおす | yaritōsu | to carry through; to achieve; to complete |
| 窒息 | ちっそく | chissoku | suffocation |
| 零す | こぼす | kobosu | to spill |
| 饂飩 | うどん | udon | noodles (Japanese) |
| インターチェンジ | — | intāchenji | interchange |
| 憂鬱 | ゆううつ | yūutsu | depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom |
| 脚本 | きゃくほん | kyakuhon | scenario |
| レース | — | rēsu | race; lace |
| 良識 | りょうしき | ryōshiki | good sense |
| 女史 | じょし | joshi | Ms. |
| 幕 | とばり | tobari | curtain; bunting; act (in play) |
| 供 | きょう | kyō | offer; present; submit; serve (a meal); supply |
| 至って | いたって | itatte | very much; exceedingly; extremely |
| 配分 | はいぶん | haibun | distribution; allotment |
| 発作 | ほっさ | hossa | fit; spasm |
| さん | — | san | Mr or Mrs |
| 教材 | きょうざい | kyōzai | teaching materials |
| 凡そ | およそ | oyoso | about; roughly; as a rule; approximately |
| 付録 | ふろく | furoku | appendix; supplement |
| 密接 | みっせつ | missetsu | related; connected; close; intimate |
| 故人 | こじん | kojin | the deceased; old friend |
| ヶ月 | かげつ | kagetsu | #NAME? |
| 魂 | こん | kon | soul; spirit |
| カルテ | — | karute | (de:) (n) clinical records (de: Karte) |
| 慣行 | かんこう | kankō | customary practice; habit; traditional event |
| 急かす | せかす | sekasu | to hurry; to urge on |
| 役職 | やくしょく | yakushoku | post; managerial position; official position |
| 備わる | そなわる | sonawaru | to be furnished with; to be endowed with; to possess; to be among; to be one of; to be possessed of |
| 山腹 | さんぷく | sanpuku | hillside; mountainside |
| 突く | つつく | tsutsuku | 1. to thrust; to strike; to attack; 2. to poke; to nudge; to pick at |
| 見落とす | みおとす | miotosu | to overlook; to fail to notice |
| 真上 | まうえ | maue | just above; right overhead |
| アルカリ | — | arukari | alkali |
| 財 | ざい | zai | fortune; riches |
| 肉親 | にくしん | nikushin | blood relationship; blood relative |
| 所々 | しょしょ | shosho | here and there; some parts (of something) |
| 皺 | しわ | shiwa | wrinkles; creases |
| 関税 | かんぜい | kanzei | customs; duty; tariff |
| 納まる | おさまる | osamaru | to be obtained; to end; to settle into; to fit into; to be settled; to be paid; to be delivered |
| 憎しみ | にくしみ | nikushimi | hatred |
| 油絵 | あぶらえ | aburae | oil painting |
| がる | — | garu | feel |
| 若し | もし | moshi | if; in case; supposing |
| 不可欠 | ふかけつ | fukaketsu | indispensable; essential |
| チェンジ | — | chenji | change |
| 正解 | せいかい | seikai | correct; right; correct interpretation (answer solution) |
| 弾く | はじく | hajiku | to flip; to snap |
| 像 | ぞう | zō | statue; image; figure; picture; portrait |
| 照り返す | てりかえす | terikaesu | to reflect; to throw back light |
| 非 | ひ | hi | faulty-; non- |
| 深める | ふかめる | fukameru | to deepen; to heighten; to intensify |
| 丘陵 | きゅうりょう | kyūryō | hill |
| 協定 | きょうてい | kyōtei | arrangement; pact; agreement |
| 周 | しゅう | shū | circuit; lap; circumference; vicinity; Chou (dynasty) |
| 転居 | てんきょ | tenkyo | moving; changing residence |
| 凌ぐ | しのぐ | shinogu | to outdo; to surpass; to endure; to keep out (rain); to stave off; to tide over; to pull through; to defy; t |
| 花壇 | かだん | kadan | flower bed |
| 埋め込む | うめこむ | umekomu | to bury |
| 縁談 | えんだん | endan | marriage proposal; engagement |
| 楽譜 | がくふ | gakufu | score (music) |
| 赤ちゃん | あかちゃん | akachan | baby; infant |
| 膨脹 | ぼうちょう | bōchō | expansion; swelling; increase; growth |
| 補給 | ほきゅう | hokyū | supply; supplying; replenishment |
| 殴る | なぐる | naguru | to strike; to hit |
| 人情 | にんじょう | ninjō | humanity; empathy; kindness; sympathy; human nature; common sense; customs and manners |
| 待望 | たいぼう | taibō | expectant waiting |
| 誤る | あやまる | ayamaru | to make a mistake |
| 据える | すえる | sueru | to set (table); to lay (foundation); to place (gun); to apply (moxa) |
| 高原 | こうげん | kōgen | tableland; plateau |
| 慌ただしい | あわただしい | awatadashii | busy; hurried; confused; flurried |
| 和風 | わふう | wafū | Japanese style |
| 他方 | たほう | tahō | another side; different direction; (on) the other hand |
| 観衆 | かんしゅう | kanshū | spectators; onlookers; members of the audience |
| コミュニケーション | — | komynikēshon | communication |
| 一日 | いちじつ | ichijitsu | (1) one day, (2) first of month |
| 苛める | いじめる | ijimeru | to tease; to torment; to persecute; to chastise |
| 一言 | いちげん | ichigen | single word |
| 協会 | きょうかい | kyōkai | association; society; organization |
| 改悪 | かいあく | kaiaku | deterioration; changing for the worse |
| 訴え | うったえ | uttae | lawsuit; complaint |
| 喋る | しゃべる | shaberu | to talk; to chat; to chatter |
| 文書 | ぶんしょ | bunsho | document; writing; letter; note; records; archives |
| 任す | まかす | makasu | to entrust; to leave to a person |
| 尿 | にょう | nyō | urine |
| 崇拝 | すうはい | sūhai | worship; adoration; admiration; cult |
| 気立て | きだて | kidate | disposition; nature |
| 負かす | まかす | makasu | to defeat |
| 美 | び | bi | beauty |
| 爽やか | さわやか | sawayaka | fresh; refreshing; invigorating; clear; fluent; eloquent |
| 反響 | はんきょう | hankyō | echo; reverberation; repercussion; reaction; influence |
| 進展 | しんてん | shinten | progress; development |
| 七日 | なぬか | nanuka | seven days; the seventh day (of the month) |
| 体力 | たいりょく | tairyoku | physical strength |
| 悪日 | あくび | akubi | unlucky day |
| 梢 | こずえ | kozue | treetop |
| 出くわす | でくわす | dekuwasu | to happen to meet; to come across |
| 部門 | ぶもん | bumon | class; group; category; department; field; branch |
| 滅ぼす | ほろぼす | horobosu | to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin |
| 仕立てる | したてる | shitateru | to tailor; to make; to prepare; to train; to send (a messenger) |
| 長官 | ちょうかん | chōkan | chief; (government) secretary |
| 周期 | しゅうき | shūki | cycle; period |
| 反感 | はんかん | hankan | antipathy; revolt; animosity |
| 主題 | しゅだい | shudai | subject; theme; motif |
| 剥げる | はげる | hageru | to come off; to be worn off; to fade; to discolor |
| 溝 | こう | kō | 10^38; hundred undecillion (American); hundred sextillion (British) |
| 区 | く | ku | ward; district; section |
| 華美 | かび | kabi | pomp; splendor; gaudiness |
| 業績 | ぎょうせき | gyōseki | achievement; performance; results; work; contribution |
| 立方 | たちかた | tachikata | dancing (geisha) |
| 異性 | いせい | isei | the opposite sex |
| 嵩張る | かさばる | kasabaru | to be bulky; to be unwieldy; to grow voluminous |
| 洋風 | ようふう | yōfū | western style |
| くっきり | — | kukkiri | distinctly; clearly; boldly |
| 個々 | ここ | koko | individual; one by one |
| 連中 | れんじゅう | renjū | colleagues; company; a lot |
| 熱湯 | ねっとう | nettō | boiling water |
| 気軽 | きがる | kigaru | cheerful; buoyant; lighthearted |
| 竿 | さお | sao | rod; pole (e.g. for drying laundry) |
| 呉れる | くれる | kureru | to give; to let one have; to do for one; to be given |
| 従来 | じゅうらい | jūrai | up to now; so far; traditional |
| 折衷 | せっちゅう | setchū | compromise; cross; blending; eclecticism |
| 葦 | よし | yoshi | reed; bulrush |
| 見晴らし | みはらし | miharashi | view |
| 薄弱 | はくじゃく | hakujaku | feebleness; weakness; weak |
| 公団 | こうだん | kōdan | public corporation |
| 催す | もよおす | moyōsu | to hold (a meeting); to give (a dinner); to feel; to show signs of; to develop symptoms of; to feel (sick |
| 盗み | ぬすみ | nusumi | stealing |
| 技 | わざ | waza | art; technique |
| 原典 | げんてん | genten | original (text) |
| ソロ | — | soro | solo |
| 遅くとも | おそくとも | osokutomo | at the latest |
| 民俗 | みんぞく | minzoku | people; race; nation; racial customs; folk customs |
| 割合に | わりあいに | wariaini | comparatively |
| 脱する | だっする | dassuru | to escape from; to get out |
| 本の | ほんの | honno | mere; only; just |
| 縁 | えん | en | chance; fate; destiny; relation; bonds; connection; karma |
| 日当 | にっとう | nittō | daily allowance |
| 訪れる | おとずれる | otozureru | to visit |
| 社 | やしろ | yashiro | Shinto shrine |
| 稲光 | いなびかり | inabikari | (flash of) lightning |
| 曲 | きょく | kyoku | tune; piece of music |
| 着 | ちゃく | chaku | counter for suits of clothing; arriving at .. |
| 採択 | さいたく | saitaku | adoption; selection; choice |
| 叶える | かなえる | kanaeru | to grant (request wish) |
| 領土 | りょうど | ryōdo | dominion; territory; possession |
| 共存 | きょうそん | kyōson | coexistence |
| 廃れる | すたれる | sutareru | to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion |
| 渦 | うず | uzu | swirl |
| 振興 | しんこう | shinkō | promotion; encouragement |
| 元来 | がんらい | ganrai | originally; primarily; essentially; logically; naturally |
| お大事に | おだいじに | odaijini | Take care of yourself |
| 優位 | ゆうい | yūi | predominance; ascendancy; superiority |
| 放棄 | ほうき | hōki | abandonment; renunciation; abdication (responsibility right) |
| 背景 | はいけい | haikei | background; scenery; setting; circumstance |
| 問屋 | といや | toiya | wholesale store |
| 骨董品 | こっとうひん | kottōhin | curio |
| 蒸留 | じょうりゅう | jōryū | distillation |
| 弁護 | べんご | bengo | defense; pleading; advocacy |
| 照明 | しょうめい | shōmei | illumination |
| 経歴 | けいれき | keireki | personal history; career |
| 減点 | げんてん | genten | subtract; give a demerit |
| 賭ける | かける | kakeru | to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble |
| 反 | たん | tan | roll of cloth (c. 10 yds.); .245 acres; 300 tsubo |
| 久しい | ひさしい | hisashii | long; long-continued; old (story) |
| 待ち望む | まちのぞむ | machinozomu | to look anxiously for; to wait eagerly for |
| 冷蔵 | れいぞう | reizō | cold storage; refrigeration |
| ウェートレス | — | wētoresu | waitress |
| 広まる | ひろまる | hiromaru | to spread; to be propagated |
| 共和 | きょうわ | kyōwa | republicanism; cooperation |
| 果ない | はかない | hakanai | fleeting; transient; short-lived; momentary; vain; fickle; miserable; empty; ephemeral |
| 前売り | まえうり | maeuri | advance sale; booking |
| 荒っぽい | あらっぽい | arappoi | rough; rude |
| 製鉄 | せいてつ | seitetsu | iron manufacture |
| 証 | あかし | akashi | proof; evidence |
| 大方 | おおかた | ōkata | perhaps; almost all; majority |
| 蜂蜜 | はちみつ | hachimitsu | honey |
| 月賦 | げっぷ | geppu | monthly installment |
| 決算 | けっさん | kessan | balance sheet; settlement of accounts |
| 痛切 | つうせつ | tsūsetsu | keen; acute |
| 肉体 | にくたい | nikutai | the body; the flesh |
| 捕吏 | ほり | hori | constable |
| 並み | なみ | nami | average; medium; common; ordinary |
| 余興 | よきょう | yokyō | side show; entertainment |
| 受け入れ | うけいれ | ukeire | receiving; acceptance |
| 緩やか | ゆるやか | yuruyaka | lenient |
| 個性 | こせい | kosei | individuality; personality; idiosyncrasy |
| ストロー | — | sutorō | straw |
| 大金 | たいきん | taikin | great cost |
| 起点 | きてん | kiten | starting point |
| 家主 | いえぬし | ienushi | landlord |
| 独自 | どくじ | dokuji | original; peculiar; characteristic |
| 陳列 | ちんれつ | chinretsu | exhibition; display; show |
| 取り扱い | とりあつかい | toriatsukai | treatment; service; handling; management |
| 直ぐ | すぐ | sugu | immediately; soon; easily; right (near); honest; upright |
| 似通う | にかよう | nikayō | to resemble closely |
| 恥じらう | はじらう | hajirau | to feel shy; to be bashful; to blush |
| 会見 | かいけん | kaiken | interview; audience |
| 減少 | げんしょう | genshō | decrease; reduction; decline |
| 英雄 | えいゆう | eiyū | hero; great man |
| 汽船 | きせん | kisen | steamship |
| 微か | かすか | kasuka | faint; dim; weak; indistinct; hazy; poor; wretched |
| 会 | え | e | understanding |
| 行政 | ぎょうせい | gyōsei | administration |
| 目方 | めかた | mekata | weight |
| 書き取る | かきとる | kakitoru | to write down; to take dictation; to take notes |
| 生身 | なまみ | namami | living flesh; flesh and blood; the quick |
| 若しくは | もしくは | moshikuha | or; otherwise |
| 義理 | ぎり | giri | duty; sense of duty; honor; decency; courtesy; debt of gratitude; social obligation |
| 組み合わせ | くみあわせ | kumiawase | combination |
| 生温い | なまぬるい | namanurui | lukewarm; halfhearted |
| テレックス | — | terekkusu | telex; teletypewriter exchange |
| 発芽 | はつが | hatsuga | burgeoning |
| 参上 | さんじょう | sanjō | calling on; visiting |
| 嘗める | なめる | nameru | to lick; to taste; to experience; to make fun of; to make light of; to put down; to treat with contempt |
| 未 | ひつじ | hitsuji | eighth sign of Chinese zodiac (The Ram 1pm-3pm south-southwest June) |
| 弓 | ゆみ | yumi | bow (and arrow) |
| 脱出 | だっしゅつ | dasshutsu | escape |
| 簡易 | かんい | kan'i | simplicity; easiness; quasi- |
| 局限 | きょくげん | kyokugen | limit; localize |
| 歩 | ふ | fu | pawn (in chess or shogi) |
| 種 | しゅ | shu | kind; variety; species |
| 細工 | さいく | saiku | work; craftsmanship; tactics; trick |
| 字体 | じたい | jitai | type; font; lettering |
| 優 | やさ | yasa | gentle; affectionate |
| 紳士 | しんし | shinshi | gentleman |
| 尻尾 | しっぽ | shippo | tail (animal) |
| 角 | かく | kaku | 1. angle; 2. bishop (shogi) |
| 海路 | うみじ | umiji | sea route |
| 揶揄う | からかう | karakau | to ridicule; to tease; to banter with; to make fun of |
| 畏まりました | かしこまりました | kashikomarimashita | certainly! |
| 討議 | とうぎ | tōgi | debate; discussion |
| 遊牧 | ゆうぼく | yūboku | nomadism |
| 仲人 | ちゅうにん | chūnin | go-between; matchmaker |
| 一寸 | ちょっと | chotto | (ateji) (adv int) (uk) just a minute; a short time; a while; just a little; somewhat; easily; readily; rath |
| 助言 | じょげん | jogen | advice; suggestion |
| 無能 | むのう | munō | inefficiency; incompetence |
| 諦め | あきらめ | akirame | resignation; acceptance; consolation |
| 君主 | くんしゅ | kunshu | ruler; monarch |
| 連帯 | れんたい | rentai | solidarity |
| 光沢 | こうたく | kōtaku | brilliance; polish; lustre; glossy finish (of photographs) |
| 課外 | かがい | kagai | extracurricular |
| 乳 | ちち | chichi | milk; breast; loop |
| 元素 | げんそ | genso | chemical element |
| 災害 | さいがい | saigai | calamity; disaster; misfortune |
| 有りのまま | ありのまま | arinomama | the truth; fact; as it is; frankly |
| コマーシャル | — | komāsharu | a commercial |
| 収支 | しゅうし | shūshi | income and expenditure |
| 書き取り | かきとり | kakitori | dictation |
| 講習 | こうしゅう | kōshū | short course; training |
| 仕掛ける | しかける | shikakeru | to commence; to lay (mines); to set (traps); to wage (war); to challenge |
| 衝撃 | しょうげき | shōgeki | shock; crash; impact; ballistic |
| 取り調べる | とりしらべる | torishiraberu | to investigate; to examine |
| ムード | — | mūdo | mood |
| 論議 | ろんぎ | rongi | discussion |
| 先先週 | せんせんしゅう | sensenshū | week before last |
| 黄色 | おうしょく | ōshoku | yellow |
| 重複 | じゅうふく | jūfuku | duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration |
| 眼鏡 | がんきょう | gankyō | spectacles; glasses |
| 健在 | けんざい | kenzai | in good health; well |
| ニュー | — | nyū | new |
| 還暦 | かんれき | kanreki | 60th birthday |
| 肥料 | ひりょう | hiryō | manure; fertilizer |
| アルミ | — | arumi | aluminum (Al); aluminium |
| お休み | おやすみ | oyasumi | holiday; absence; rest; Good night |
| 富豪 | ふごう | fugō | wealthy person; millionaire |
| 橋渡し | はしわたし | hashiwatashi | bridge building; mediation |
| 捜索 | そうさく | sōsaku | search (esp. for someone or something missing); investigation |
| 志す | こころざす | kokorozasu | to plan; to intend; to aspire to; to set aims (sights on) |
| 考古学 | こうこがく | kōkogaku | archaeology |
| 普遍 | ふへん | fuhen | universality; ubiquity; omnipresence |
| 退職 | たいしょく | taishoku | retirement (from office) |
| 引き下げる | ひきさげる | hikisageru | to pull down; to lower; to reduce; to withdraw |
| 持て成す | もてなす | motenasu | to entertain; to make welcome |
| 産休 | さんきゅう | sankyū | maternity leave |
| 心中 | しんじゅう | shinjū | double suicide; lovers suicide |
| 鈍感 | どんかん | donkan | thickheadedness; stolidity |
| 今更 | いまさら | imasara | now; at this late hour |
| 破裂 | はれつ | haretsu | explosion; rupture; break off |
| 反射 | はんしゃ | hansha | reflection; reverberation |
| 届け | とどけ | todoke | report; notification; registration |
| 生 | き | ki | pure; undiluted; raw; crude |
| 脱退 | だったい | dattai | secession |
| 造る | つくる | tsukuru | to make; to create; to manufacture; to draw up; to write; to compose; to build; to coin; to cultivate; to org |
| 内部 | ないぶ | naibu | interior; inside; internal |
| 余地 | よち | yochi | place; room; margin; scope |
| 教科 | きょうか | kyōka | subject; curriculum |
| 対等 | たいとう | taitō | equivalent |
| ダブる | — | daburu | to coincide (fall on the same day); to have two of something; to repeat a school year after failing |
| 驚き | おどろき | odoroki | surprise; astonishment; wonder |
| 屡 | しばしば | shibashiba | often; again and again; frequently |
| 下番 | かばん | kaban | going off duty |
| 人材 | じんざい | jinzai | man of talent |
| 麻 | あさ | asa | flax; linen; hemp |
| 盲点 | もうてん | mōten | blind spot |
| 率直 | そっちょく | sotchoku | frankness; candour; openheartedness |
| パトカー | — | patokā | patrol car |
| 調べ | しらべ | shirabe | preparation; investigation; inspection |
| デザート | — | dezāto | dessert |
| 嗚呼 | ああ | aa | Ah!; Oh!; Alas! |
| 行進 | こうしん | kōshin | march; parade |
| 大事 | おおごと | ōgoto | important; valuable; serious matter |
| 清々しい | すがすがしい | sugasugashii | fresh; refreshing |
| 婉曲 | えんきょく | enkyoku | euphemistic; circumlocution; roundabout; indirect; insinuating |
| アンコール | — | ankōru | encore |
| 苗 | なえ | nae | rice seedling |
| 進度 | しんど | shindo | progress |
| 暗殺 | あんさつ | ansatsu | assassination |
| 元首 | げんしゅ | genshu | ruler; sovereign |
| 且つ | かつ | katsu | yet; and |
| 彼此 | あれこれ | arekore | one thing or another; this and that; this or that |
| 馴れ馴れしい | なれなれしい | narenareshii | over-familiar |
| 耐える | たえる | taeru | to bear; to endure |
| 喜劇 | きげき | kigeki | comedy; funny show |
| 草臥れる | くたびれる | kutabireru | to get tired; to wear out |
| 貨幣 | かへい | kahei | money; currency; coinage |
| ボイコット | — | boikotto | boycott |
| 幽霊 | ゆうれい | yūrei | ghost; specter; apparition; phantom |
| 甚だ | はなはだ | hanahada | very; greatly; exceedingly |
| 養う | やしなう | yashinau | to rear; to maintain; to cultivate |
| 水気 | すいき | suiki | 1. moisture; dampness; vapor; 2. dropsy; edema |
| 予め | あらかじめ | arakajime | beforehand; in advance; previously |
| 砂利 | じゃり | jari | gravel; ballast; pebbles |
| ブーツ | — | būtsu | boots |
| 独裁 | どくさい | dokusai | dictatorship; despotism |
| 父母 | ちちはは | chichihaha | father and mother; parents |
| 甘口 | あまくち | amakuchi | sweet flavour; mildness; flattery; stupidity |
| 頂 | いただき | itadaki | (top of) head; summit; spire |
| 介抱 | かいほう | kaihō | nursing; looking after |
| 字 | あざ | aza | section of village |
| 家畜 | かちく | kachiku | domestic animals; livestock; cattle |
| あやふや | — | ayafuya | uncertain; vague; ambiguous |
| 嫉妬 | しっと | shitto | jealousy |
| ガイド | — | gaido | tour guide |
| 出動 | しゅつどう | shutsudō | sailing; marching; going out |
| 調停 | ちょうてい | chōtei | arbitration; conciliation; mediation |
| 差し支える | さしつかえる | sashitsukaeru | to interfere; to hinder; to become impeded |
| 雑貨 | ざっか | zakka | miscellaneous goods; general goods; sundries |
| ダース | — | dāsu | dozen |
| 国産 | こくさん | kokusan | domestic products |
| サンタクロース | — | santakurōsu | Santa Claus |
| 食い違う | くいちがう | kuichigau | to cross each other; to run counter to; to differ; to clash; to go awry |
| 見せびらかす | みせびらかす | misebirakasu | to show off; to flaunt |
| 奇麗 | きれい | kirei | pretty; clean; nice; tidy; beautiful; fair |
| ファイル | — | fairu | file |
| 危ぶむ | あやぶむ | ayabumu | to fear; to have misgivings; to be doubtful; to mistrust |
| 出産 | しゅっさん | shussan | (child)birth; delivery; production (of goods) |
| 放射能 | ほうしゃのう | hōshanō | radioactivity |
| 雅致 | がち | gachi | artistry; good taste; elegance; grace |
| 過労 | かろう | karō | overwork; strain |
| 予感 | よかん | yokan | presentiment; premonition |
| お邪魔します | おじゃまします | ojamashimasu | Excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you |
| 腸 | ちょう | chō | guts; bowels; intestines |
| 如何に | いかに | ikani | how?; in what way?; how much?; however; whatever |
| 駆けっこ | かけっこ | kakekko | (foot) race |
| 要望 | ようぼう | yōbō | demand for; request |
| ビールス | — | bīrusu | virus |
| 鳥居 | とりい | torii | torii (Shinto shrine archway) |
| 志 | こころざし | kokorozashi | will; intention; motive |
| 流 | りゅう | ryū | styleof; method of; manner of |
| きっかり | — | kikkari | exactly; precisely |
| 甲 | きのえ | kinoe | 1st in rank; first sign of the Chinese calendar; shell; instep; grade A |
| 喫茶 | きっさ | kissa | tea drinking; tea house |
| 障る | さわる | sawaru | to hinder; to interfere with; to affect; to do one harm; to be harmful to |
| 幹部 | かんぶ | kanbu | management; (executive) staff; leaders |
| 対比 | たいひ | taihi | contrast; comparison |
| 痛感 | つうかん | tsūkan | feeling keenly; fully realizing |
| 寄こす | よこす | yokosu | to send; to forward |
| 勘弁 | かんべん | kanben | pardon; forgiveness; forbearance |
| 我がまま | わがまま | wagamama | selfishness; egoism; wilfulness; disobedience; whim |
| 直感 | ちょっかん | chokkan | intuition |
| 呆然 | ぼうぜん | bōzen | dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement |
| 手軽 | てがる | tegaru | easy; simple; informal; offhand; cheap |
| 件 | くだん | kudan | example; precedent; the usual; the said; the above-mentioned; (man) in question |
| 権 | けん | ken | authority; the right (to do something) |
| 全快 | ぜんかい | zenkai | complete recovery of health |
| 追及 | ついきゅう | tsuikyū | gaining on; carrying out; solving (crime) |
| 目眩 | めまい | memai | dizziness; giddiness |
| 包む | くるむ | kurumu | to be engulfed in; to be enveloped by; to wrap up; to tuck in; to pack; to do up; to cover with; to dress i |
| 用件 | ようけん | yōken | business |
| お祖母さん | おばあさん | obaasan | grandmother; female senior-citizen |
| お供 | おとも | otomo | attendant; companion |
| 盛る | さかる | sakaru | to prosper; to flourish; to copulate (animals) |
| 疑惑 | ぎわく | giwaku | doubt; misgivings; distrust; suspicion |
| 努めて | つとめて | tsutomete | make an effort!; work hard! |
| 引き上げる | ひきあげる | hikiageru | to withdraw; to leave; to pull out; to retire |
| 討論 | とうろん | tōron | debate; discussion |
| 収容 | しゅうよう | shūyō | accommodation; reception; seating; housing; custody; admission; entering (in a dictionary) |
| 人柄 | ひとがら | hitogara | personality; character; personal appearance; gentility |
| 下取り | したどり | shitadori | trade in; part exchange |
| 重んずる | おもんずる | omonzuru | to honor; to respect; to esteem; to prize |
| 偏 | へん | hen | side; left radical of a character; inclining; inclining toward; biased |
| 宛 | あて | ate | addressed to |
| 酪農 | らくのう | rakunō | dairy (farm) |
| 鋸 | のこぎり | nokogiri | saw |
| 兎に角 | とにかく | tonikaku | anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case |
| 脅迫 | きょうはく | kyōhaku | threat; menace; coercion; terrorism |
| 結核 | けっかく | kekkaku | tuberculosis; tubercule |
| 銅 | あかがね | akagane | copper |
| 一面 | いちめん | ichimen | one side; one phase; front page; the other hand; the whole surface |
| チャイム | — | chaimu | chime |
| 御負け | おまけ | omake | 1. a discount; a prize; 2. something additional; bonus; an extra; 3. an exaggeration |
| 中継 | ちゅうけい | chūkei | relay; hook-up |
| 押し寄せる | おしよせる | oshiyoseru | to push aside; to advance on |
| 再生 | さいせい | saisei | playback; regeneration; resuscitation; return to life; rebirth; reincarnation; narrow escape; reclamation; r |
| 明るい | あかるい | akarui | bright; cheerful |
| 群 | ぐん | gun | group (math) |
| 沿線 | えんせん | ensen | along railway line |
| 主任 | しゅにん | shunin | person in charge; responsible official |
| 晴天 | せいてん | seiten | fine weather |
| 楽しむ | たのしむ | tanoshimu | to enjoy oneself |
| 受け取り | うけとり | uketori | receipt |
| 佳句 | かく | kaku | beautiful passage of literature |
| ちらっと | — | chiratto | at a glance; by accident |
| 巧み | たくみ | takumi | skill; cleverness |
| 逸らす | そらす | sorasu | to turn away; to avert |
| 始発 | しはつ | shihatsu | first train |
| 而も | しかも | shikamo | moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet |
| 紡績 | ぼうせき | bōseki | spinning |
| 和 | わ | wa | sum; harmony; peace |
| 禅 | ぜん | zen | Zen (Buddhism) |
| 発掘 | はっくつ | hakkutsu | excavation; exhumation |
| 結び付く | むすびつく | musubitsuku | to be connected or related; to join together |
| 主演 | しゅえん | shuen | starring; playing the leading part |
| 司る | つかさどる | tsukasadoru | to rule; to govern; to administer |
| ナプキン | — | napukin | napkin |
| 仕切る | しきる | shikiru | to partition; to divide; to mark off; to settle accounts; to toe the mark |
| 受け止める | うけとめる | uketomeru | to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take |
| 悪 | あく | aku | evil; wickedness |
| 呆れる | あきれる | akireru | to be amazed; to be shocked |
| 密集 | みっしゅう | misshū | crowd; close formation; dense |
| 盛大 | せいだい | seidai | grand; prosperous; magnificent |
| 連ねる | つらねる | tsuraneru | to link; to join; to put together |
| 和文 | わぶん | wabun | Japanese text; sentence in Japanese |
| 導く | みちびく | michibiku | to be guided; to be shown |
| 繕う | つくろう | tsukurō | to mend; to repair; to fix; to patch up; to darn; to tidy up; to adjust; to trim |
| 寝かせる | ねかせる | nekaseru | to put to bed; to lay down; to ferment |
| 神聖 | しんせい | shinsei | holiness; sacredness; dignity |
| 盛り上がる | もりあがる | moriagaru | to rouse; to swell; to rise |
| 茶の間 | ちゃのま | chanoma | living room (Japanese style) |
| 夕暮れ | ゆうぐれ | yūgure | evening; (evening) twilight |
| 万人 | ばんじん | banjin | all people; everybody; 10000 people |
| 鉄棒 | かなぼう | kanabō | iron rod; crowbar; horizontal bar (gymnastics) |
| 加味 | かみ | kami | seasoning; flavoring |
| 強請る | ねだる | nedaru | to tease; to coax; to solicit; to demand |
| 褒美 | ほうび | hōbi | reward; prize |
| 台無し | だいなし | dainashi | mess; spoiled; (come to) nothing |
| 待ち遠しい | まちどおしい | machidōshii | looking forward to |
| 終始 | しゅうし | shūshi | beginning and end; from beginning to end; doing a thing from beginning to end |
| 天地 | あめつち | ametsuchi | heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world |
| 手近 | てぢか | tejika | near; handy; familiar |
| 相応しい | ふさわしい | fusawashii | appropriate |
| 目盛 | めもり | memori | scale; gradations |
| スプリング | — | supuringu | spring |
| 情熱 | じょうねつ | jōnetsu | passion; enthusiasm; zeal |
| 没収 | ぼっしゅう | bosshū | forfeited |
| 水田 | すいでん | suiden | (water-filled) paddy field |
| 余所見 | よそみ | yosomi | looking away; looking aside |
| 質素 | しっそ | shisso | simplicity; modesty; frugality |
| ずるずる | — | zuruzuru | sound or act of dragging; loose; inconclusive but unwanted situation; trailingly |
| 如何して | どうして | dōshite | why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for |
| 製 | せい | sei | -made; make |
| ぼつぼつ | — | botsubotsu | gradually; here and there; spots; pimples |
| 試みる | こころみる | kokoromiru | to try; to test |
| 作用 | さよう | sayō | action; operation; effect; function |
| 乗っ取る | のっとる | nottoru | to capture; to occupy; to usurp |
| 退学 | たいがく | taigaku | dropping out of school |
| 転落 | てんらく | tenraku | fall; degradation; slump |
| 樹木 | じゅもく | jumoku | trees and shrubs; arbour |
| 逃走 | とうそう | tōsō | flight; desertion; escape |
| ハンガー | — | hangā | hangar; (coat) hanger; hunger |
| 其処ら | そこら | sokora | everywhere; somewhere; approximately; that area; around there |
| 半端 | はんぱ | hanpa | remnant; fragment; incomplete set; fraction; odd sum; incompleteness |
| 取りあえず | とりあえず | toriaezu | at once; first of all; for the time being |
| 胴 | どう | dō | trunk; body; frame |
| 訂正 | ていせい | teisei | correction; revision |
| 複合 | ふくごう | fukugō | composite; complex |
| 提示 | ていじ | teiji | presentation; exhibit; suggest; citation |
| 照合 | しょうごう | shōgō | collation; comparison |
| 大幅 | おおはば | ōhaba | full width; large scale; drastic |
| 専用 | せんよう | sen'yō | exclusive use; personal use |
| 軽蔑 | けいべつ | keibetsu | scorn; disdain |
| 漏れる | もれる | moreru | to leak out; to escape; to come through; to shine through; to filter out; to be omitted |
| 暴露 | ばくろ | bakuro | disclosure; exposure; revelation |
| あくどい | — | akudoi | 1. gaudy; showy; excessive; 2. vicious |
| 待ち合わせ | まちあわせ | machiawase | appointment |
| 中毒 | ちゅうどく | chūdoku | poisoning |
| デッサン | — | dessan | (fr:) (n) rough sketch (fr: dessin) |
| 区間 | くかん | kukan | section (of track etc) |
| 尚 | なお | nao | furthermore; still; yet; more; still more; greater; further; less |
| 暗算 | あんざん | anzan | mental arithmetic |
| 起源 | きげん | kigen | origin; beginning; rise |
| 溢れる | あふれる | afureru | to flood; to overflow; to brim over |
| 出題 | しゅつだい | shutsudai | proposing a question |
| 弱まる | よわまる | yowamaru | to abate; to weaken; to be emaciated; to be dejected; to be perplexed |
| 看護 | かんご | kango | nursing; (army) nurse |
| 慣らす | ならす | narasu | to accustom |
| 区々 | まちまち | machimachi | 1. several; various; divergent; conflicting; different; diverse; 2. trivial |
| 略奪 | りゃくだつ | ryakudatsu | pillage; plunder; looting; robbery |
| 治安 | ちあん | chian | public order |
| 自覚 | じかく | jikaku | self-conscious |
| 癌 | がん | gan | cancer |
| 代わる | かわる | kawaru | to take the place of; to relieve; to be substituted for; to be exchanged; to change places with; to take |
| レントゲン | — | rentogen | X-ray (lit: Roentgen) |
| インフォメーション | — | infomēshon | information |
| 産出 | さんしゅつ | sanshutsu | yield; produce |
| ミュージック | — | my-jikku | music |
| 原文 | げんぶん | genbun | the text; original |
| システム | — | shisutemu | system |
| ニュアンス | — | nyuansu | nuance |
| 次いで | ついで | tsuide | next; secondly; subsequently |
| 荒らす | あらす | arasu | to lay waste; to devastate; to damage; to invade; to break into |
| 吟味 | ぎんみ | ginmi | testing; scrutiny; careful investigation |
| 嘴 | くちばし | kuchibashi | beak; bill |
| 費やす | ついやす | tsuiyasu | to spend; to devote; to waste |
| 裸足 | はだし | hadashi | barefoot |
| 可愛い | かわいい | kawaii | pretty; cute; lovely; charming; dear; darling; pet |
| 与党 | よとう | yotō | government party; (ruling) party in power; government |
| セクション | — | sekushon | section |
| 降水 | こうすい | kōsui | rainfall; precipitation |
| 不明 | ふめい | fumei | unknown; obscure; indistinct; uncertain; ambiguous; ignorant; lack of wisdom; anonymous; unidentified |
| 例 | ためし | tameshi | instance; example; case; precedent; experience; custom; usage; parallel; illustration |
| 問い合わせる | といあわせる | toiawaseru | to enquire; to seek information |
| 前もって | まえもって | maemotte | in advance; beforehand; previously |
| お祖父さん | おじいさん | ojiisan | grandfather; male senior-citizen |
| 還元 | かんげん | kangen | resolution; reduction; return to origins |
| 群がる | むらがる | muragaru | to swarm; to gather |
| 仕上げる | しあげる | shiageru | to finish up; to complete |
| 改良 | かいりょう | kairyō | improvement; reform |
| 到底 | とうてい | tōtei | (cannot) possibly |
| コンタクト | — | kontakuto | contact; contact lens |
| デコレーション | — | dekorēshon | decoration |
| 中和 | ちゅうわ | chūwa | neutralize; counteract |
| 及び | および | oyobi | and; as well as |
| 観覧 | かんらん | kanran | viewing |
| 単調 | たんちょう | tanchō | monotony; monotone; dullness |
| 俄か | にわか | niwaka | sudden; abrupt; unexpected; improvised; offhand |
| コンテスト | — | kontesuto | contest |
| 赤字 | あかじ | akaji | deficit; go in the red |
| 迅速 | じんそく | jinsoku | quick; fast; rapid; swift; prompt |
| 仕舞う | しまう | shimau | to finish; to close; to do something completely; to put away; to put an end to |
| 同等 | どうとう | dōtō | equality; equal; same rights; same rank |
| 矢っ張り | やっぱり | yappari | also; as I thought; still; in spite of; absolutely |
| 関与 | かんよ | kan'yo | participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in |
| 画期 | かっき | kakki | epoch-making |
| ご無沙汰 | ごぶさた | gobusata | not writing or contacting for a while |
| 成るべく | なるべく | narubeku | as much as possible |
| 興業 | こうぎょう | kōgyō | industrial enterprise |
| 主食 | しゅしょく | shushoku | staple food |
| 未知 | みち | michi | not yet known |
| 雪崩 | なだれ | nadare | avalanche |
| 覆す | くつがえす | kutsugaesu | to overturn; to upset; to overthrow; to undermine |
| 鈍る | なまる | namaru | to become less capable; to grow dull; to become blunt; to weaken |
| 心細い | こころぼそい | kokorobosoi | helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging; disheartening |
| 未練 | みれん | miren | lingering affection; attachment; regret(s); reluctance |
| 仕付ける | しつける | shitsukeru | to be used to a job; to begin to do; to baste; to tack; to plant |
| 園 | えん | en | garden (esp. man-made) |
| 見積り | みつもり | mitsumori | estimation; quotation |
| 卯 | ぼう | bō | fourth sign of Chinese zodiac (The Hare 5am-7am east February) |
| 棄権 | きけん | kiken | abstain from voting; renunciation of a right |
| 安っぽい | やすっぽい | yasuppoi | cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant |
| がっくり | — | gakkuri | heartbroken |
| 捕鯨 | ほげい | hogei | whaling; whale fishing |
| 色彩 | しきさい | shikisai | colour; hue; tints |
| 暴力 | ぼうりょく | bōryoku | violence |
| 心掛ける | こころがける | kokorogakeru | to bear in mind; to aim to do |
| 嘘つき | うそつき | usotsuki | liar (sometimes said with not much seriousness); fibber |
| 殺人 | さつじん | satsujin | murder |
| 嚏 | くしゃみ | kushami | sneeze |
| 元年 | がんねん | gannen | first year (of a specific reign) |
| 一気 | いっき | ikki | drink!(said repeatedly as a party cheer) |
| 採掘 | さいくつ | saikutsu | mining |
| 起こす | おこす | okosu | to raise; to cause; to wake someone |
| 神殿 | しんでん | shinden | temple; sacred place |
| 賄う | まかなう | makanau | to give board to; to provide meals; to pay |
| 何だか | なんだか | nandaka | a little; somewhat; somehow |
| 要因 | よういん | yōin | primary factor; main cause |
| 告白 | こくはく | kokuhaku | confession; acknowledgement |
| 空腹 | くうふく | kūfuku | hunger |
| 上司 | じょうし | jōshi | superior authorities; boss |
| 聖書 | せいしょ | seisho | Bible; scriptures |
| 工作 | こうさく | kōsaku | work; construction; handicraft; maneuvering |
| 採決 | さいけつ | saiketsu | vote; roll call |
| 連邦 | れんぽう | renpō | commonwealth; federation of states |
| 分散 | ぶんさん | bunsan | dispersion; decentralization; variance (statistics) |
| 中断 | ちゅうだん | chūdan | interruption; suspension; break |
| 飼育 | しいく | shiiku | breeding; raising; rearing |
| あべこべ | — | abekobe | contrary; opposite; inverse |
| 亜科 | あか | aka | suborder; subfamily |
| 百科事典 | ひゃっかじてん | hyakkajiten | encyclopedia |
| 基 | もとい | motoi | basis |
| 断言 | だんげん | dangen | declaration; affirmation |
| 安静 | あんせい | ansei | rest |
| 地元 | じもと | jimoto | local |
| 円満 | えんまん | enman | perfection; harmony; peace; smoothness; completeness; satisfaction; integrity |
| 間柄 | あいだがら | aidagara | relation(ship) |
| 欠乏 | けつぼう | ketsubō | want; shortage; famine |
| 気風 | きふう | kifū | character; traits; ethos |
| 同封 | どうふう | dōfū | enclosure (e.g. in a letter) |
| 臍 | へそ | heso | navel; belly-button |
| 治療 | ちりょう | chiryō | medical treatment |
| ローマ字 | ローマじ | rōmaji | romanization; Roman letters |
| 火傷 | かしょう | kashō | burn; scald |
| 弁論 | べんろん | benron | discussion; debate; argument |
| 慣れ | なれ | nare | practice; experience |
| 商 | しょう | shō | quotient |
| 民族 | みんぞく | minzoku | people; race; nation; racial customs; folk customs |
| ノイローゼ | — | noirōze | (de:) (n) neurosis (de: Neurose) |
| 生やす | はやす | hayasu | to grow; to cultivate; to wear beard |
| 知的 | ちてき | chiteki | intellectual |
| 審議 | しんぎ | shingi | deliberation |
| 片付け | かたづけ | katazuke | tidying up; finishing |
| アプローチ | — | apurōchi | approach (in golf) |
| 沿い | ぞい | zoi | along |
| 取材 | しゅざい | shuzai | choice of subject; collecting data |
| 消去 | しょうきょ | shōkyo | elimination; erasing; dying out; melting away |
| 物資 | ぶっし | busshi | goods; materials |
| あざ笑う | あざわらう | azawarau | to sneer at; to ridicule |
| インターフォン | — | intāfon | intercom |
| 映写 | えいしゃ | eisha | projection |
| 独占 | どくせん | dokusen | monopoly |
| 様相 | ようそう | yōsō | aspect |
| 失調 | しっちょう | shitchō | lack of harmony |
| 天 | あまつ | amatsu | heavenly; imperial |
| 操る | あやつる | ayatsuru | to manipulate; to operate; to pull strings |
| 総会 | そうかい | sōkai | general meeting |
| 状 | じょう | jō | shape |
| 旅客 | りょかく | ryokaku | passenger (transport) |
| 据え付ける | すえつける | suetsukeru | to install; to equip; to mount |
| 辞退 | じたい | jitai | refusal |
| 満場 | まんじょう | manjō | unanimous; whole audience |
| 発足 | はっそく | hassoku | starting; inauguration |
| 僕 | しもべ | shimobe | manservant; servant (of God) |
| 時刻表 | じこくひょう | jikokuhyō | table; diagram; chart; timetable; schedule |
| 蓄積 | ちくせき | chikuseki | accumulation; accumulate; store |
| 一向 | ひたすら | hitasura | earnestly |
| 月日 | がっぴ | gappi | (the) date |
| 煙たい | けむたい | kemutai | smoky; feeling awkward |
| 落ち葉 | おちば | ochiba | fallen leaves; leaf litter; defoliation; shedding leaves |
| 航海 | こうかい | kōkai | sail; voyage |
| 通常 | つうじょう | tsūjō | common; general; usually |
| 論理 | ろんり | ronri | logic |
| 推測 | すいそく | suisoku | guess; conjecture |
| 交わす | かわす | kawasu | to exchange (messages); to dodge; to parry; to avoid; to turn aside |
| 取り替え | とりかえ | torikae | swap; exchange |
| 幹 | かん | kan | (tree) trunk |
| 定まる | さだまる | sadamaru | to become settled; to be fixed |
| モニター | — | monitā | (computer) monitor |
| 擦る | かする | kasuru | to touch lightly; to take a percentage (from) |
| 自ずから | おのずから | onozukara | naturally; as a matter of course |
| 未だ | いまだ | imada | as yet; hitherto; not yet (neg) |
| 霞む | かすむ | kasumu | to grow hazy; to be misty |
| 枚 | まい | mai | counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper) |
| 賃金 | ちんぎん | chingin | wages |
| 綴じる | とじる | tojiru | to bind; to file |
| 近々 | きんきん | kinkin | nearness; before long |
| 襲撃 | しゅうげき | shūgeki | attack; charge; raid |
| 統制 | とうせい | tōsei | regulation; control |
| 踵 | かかと | kakato | (shoe) heel |
| きっちり | — | kitchiri | precisely; tightly |
| 返還 | へんかん | henkan | return; restoration |
| ユニーク | — | yunīku | unique |
| 同級 | どうきゅう | dōkyū | the same grade; same class |
| 理屈 | りくつ | rikutsu | theory; reason |
| 漁村 | ぎょそん | gyoson | fishing village |
| 瓶 | かめ | kame | earthenware pot |
| 意気込む | いきごむ | ikigomu | to be enthusiastic about |
| 満たす | みたす | mitasu | to satisfy; to ingratiate; to fill; to fulfill |
| 年頃 | としごろ | toshigoro | age; marriageable age; age of puberty; adolescence; for some years |
| 坊ちゃん | ぼっちゃん | botchan | son (of others) |
| 液 | えき | eki | liquid; fluid |
| 煽てる | おだてる | odateru | to stir up; to instigate; to flatter |
| 団結 | だんけつ | danketsu | unity; union; combination |
| 面 | おも | omo | face |
| 怒る | いかる | ikaru | to get angry; to be angry |
| 軋む | きしむ | kishimu | to jar; to creak; to grate |
| 着手 | ちゃくしゅ | chakushu | embarkation; launch |
| 気品 | きひん | kihin | aroma |
| 勤勉 | きんべん | kinben | industry; diligence |
| 質疑 | しつぎ | shitsugi | question |
| 何方 | どちら | dochira | which; who |
| 同 | どう | dō | the same; the said; ibid. |
| 住 | じゅう | jū | dwelling; living |
| 麻酔 | ますい | masui | anaesthesia |
| 噴出 | ふんしゅつ | funshutsu | spewing; gushing; spouting; eruption; effusion |
| ぐっと | — | gutto | firmly; fast; much; more |
| 逃す | のがす | nogasu | to let loose; to set free; to let escape |
| 誰 | たれ | tare | adjectival suffix for a person |
| ガレージ | — | garēji | garage (at house) |
| 消息 | しょうそく | shōsoku | news; letter; circumstances |
| 歯科 | しか | shika | dentistry |
| 退く | しりぞく | shirizoku | to retreat; to recede; to withdraw |
| 雫 | しずく | shizuku | drop (of water) |
| 感触 | かんしょく | kanshoku | sense of touch; feeling; sensation |
| 秘書 | ひしょ | hisho | (private) secretary |
| 平たい | ひらたい | hiratai | flat; even; level; simple; plain |
| 恐れ | おそれ | osore | fear; horror |
| てっきり | — | tekkiri | surely; certainly; beyond doubt |
| 季刊 | きかん | kikan | quarterly (e.g. magazine) |
| 転任 | てんにん | tennin | change of post |
| 条約 | じょうやく | jōyaku | treaty; pact |
| 結成 | けっせい | kessei | formation |
| 孤独 | こどく | kodoku | isolation; loneliness; solitude |
| 悲鳴 | ひめい | himei | shriek; scream |
| 補強 | ほきょう | hokyō | compensation; reinforcement |
| 同情 | どうじょう | dōjō | sympathy; compassion; sympathize; pity; feel for |
| 在庫 | ざいこ | zaiko | stockpile; stock |
| 若しかすると | もしかすると | moshikasuruto | perhaps; maybe; by some chance |
| 再会 | さいかい | saikai | another meeting; meeting again; reunion |
| 煌々と | こうこうと | kōkōto | brilliantly; brightly |
| 灰 | あく | aku | puckery juice |
| 潤う | うるおう | uruō | to be moist; to be damp; to get wet; to profit by; to be watered; to receive benefits; to favor; to charm; t |
| 可哀想 | かわいそう | kawaisō | poor; pitiable; pathetic |
| 外相 | がいしょう | gaishō | Foreign Minister |
| 詫び | わび | wabi | apology |
| 害する | がいする | gaisuru | to injure; to damage; to harm; to kill; to hinder |
| しぶとい | — | shibutoi | tenacious; stubborn |
| 是正 | ぜせい | zesei | correction; revision |
| 圧迫 | あっぱく | appaku | pressure; coercion; oppression |
| 剥がす | はがす | hagasu | to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to disrobe; to deprive of; to detach; t |
| 化繊 | かせん | kasen | synthetic fibres |
| 畜産 | ちくさん | chikusan | animal husbandry |
| ダウン | — | daun | down |
| 利根 | りこん | rikon | intelligence |
| 先天的 | せんてんてき | sententeki | a priori; inborn; innate; inherent; congenital; hereditary |
| 有機 | ゆうき | yūki | organic |
| 職員 | しょくいん | shokuin | staff member; personnel |
| 制する | せいする | seisuru | to control; to command; to get the better of |
| 無論 | むろん | muron | of course; naturally |
| お先に | おさきに | osakini | before; ahead; previously |
| 怒り | いかり | ikari | anger; hatred |
| 末 | うら | ura | top end; tip |
| 活発 | かっぱつ | kappatsu | vigor; active |
| 相 | あい | ai | together; mutually; fellow |
| 予想 | よそう | yosō | expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast |
| 経費 | けいひ | keihi | expenses; cost; outlay |
| 顧みる | かえりみる | kaerimiru | to look back; to turn around; to review |
| 一心 | いっしん | isshin | one mind; wholeheartedness; the whole heart |
| 極めて | きわめて | kiwamete | exceedingly; extremely |
| 混む | こむ | komu | to be crowded |
| 第一 | だいいち | daiichi | first; foremost; # 1 |
| 鞠 | まり | mari | ball |
| 軍備 | ぐんび | gunbi | armaments; military preparations |
| 毎 | ごと | goto | each respectively |
| トランジスター | — | toranjisutā | transistor |
| 対して | たいして | taishite | for; in regard to; per |
| 聴覚 | ちょうかく | chōkaku | the sense of hearing |
| 励ます | はげます | hagemasu | to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice) |
| 窮屈 | きゅうくつ | kyūkutsu | narrow; tight; stiff; rigid; uneasy; formal; constrained |
| 接ぐ | つぐ | tsugu | to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (trees) |
| 残高 | ざんだか | zandaka | (bank) balance; remainder |
| 損なう | そこなう | sokonau | to harm; to hurt; to injure; to damage; to fail in doing |
| 其れでも | それでも | soredemo | but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding |
| 助詞 | じょし | joshi | particle; postposition |
| 明朗 | めいろう | meirō | bright; clear; cheerful |
| 思考 | しこう | shikō | thought |
| 根気 | こんき | konki | patience; perseverance; energy |
| 旧知 | きゅうち | kyūchi | old friend; old friendship |
| 窮乏 | きゅうぼう | kyūbō | poverty |
| 団扇 | うちわ | uchiwa | fan |
| 印 | いん | in | seal; stamp; mark; print |
| 丁目 | ちょうめ | chōme | district of a town; city block (of irregular size) |
| 平常 | へいじょう | heijō | normal; usual |
| 粉々 | こなごな | konagona | in very small pieces |
| 企画 | きかく | kikaku | planning; project |
| 確立 | かくりつ | kakuritsu | establishment |
| 素敵 | すてき | suteki | lovely; dreamy; beautiful; great; fantastic; superb; cool; capital |
| 定める | さだめる | sadameru | to decide; to establish; to determine |
| 慣例 | かんれい | kanrei | custom; precedent; of convention |
| 尾 | お | o | tail; ridge |
| 瞬き | またたき | matataki | wink; twinkling (of stars); flicker (of light) |
| 妥結 | だけつ | daketsu | agreement |
| 詰る | なじる | najiru | to rebuke; to scold; to tell off |
| 武力 | ぶりょく | buryoku | armed might; military power; the sword; force |
| 廃止 | はいし | haishi | abolition; repeal |
| 雷 | いかずち | ikazuchi | thunder |
| 岩石 | がんせき | ganseki | rock |
| 乾 | かん | kan | heaven; emperor |
| 獣 | けだもの | kedamono | beast; brute |
| 慣習 | かんしゅう | kanshū | usual (historical) custom |
| 禁じる | きんじる | kinjiru | to prohibit |
| 東 | あずま | azuma | east; Eastern Japan |
| 檻 | おり | ori | cage; pen; jail cell |
| 罵る | ののしる | nonoshiru | to speak ill of; to abuse |
| ややこしい | — | yayakoshii | puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex |
| 軸 | じく | jiku | axis; stem; shaft; axle |
| 目録 | もくろく | mokuroku | catalogue; catalog; list |
| 成り立つ | なりたつ | naritatsu | to conclude; to consist of; to be practical (logical feasible viable); to hold true |
| 故 | こ | ko | the late (deceased) |
| クラブ | — | kurabu | club; crab |
| 圧力 | あつりょく | atsuryoku | stress; pressure |
| 駄作 | ださく | dasaku | poor work; rubbish |
| 何の | どの | dono | which; what |
| 巻 | まき | maki | volume |
| ずれ | — | zure | gap; slippage |
| 次 | し | shi | order; sequence; times; next; below |
| 防火 | ぼうか | bōka | fire prevention; fire fighting; fire proof |
| 案じる | あんじる | anjiru | to be anxious; to ponder |
| ショック | — | shokku | shock |
| 逆立ち | さかだち | sakadachi | handstand; headstand |
| 隔週 | かくしゅう | kakushū | every other week |
| 増強 | ぞうきょう | zōkyō | augment; reinforce; increase |
| ご馳走さま | ごちそうさま | gochisōsama | feast |
| 唱える | となえる | tonaeru | to recite; to chant; to call upon |
| 見すぼらしい | みすぼらしい | misuborashii | shabby; seedy |
| 共学 | きょうがく | kyōgaku | coeducation |
| 怠い | だるい | darui | sluggish; feel heavy; languid; dull |
| 資産 | しさん | shisan | property; fortune; means; assets |
| 残酷 | ざんこく | zankoku | cruelty; harshness |
| 焚火 | たきび | takibi | (open) fire |
| 庶務 | しょむ | shomu | general affairs |
| 弛む | たるむ | tarumu | to slacken; to loosen; to relax |
| 仕える | つかえる | tsukaeru | to serve; to work for |
| 鍛える | きたえる | kitaeru | to forge; to drill; to temper; to train; to discipline |
| 二人 | ににん | ninin | two persons; two people; pair; couple |
| 強烈 | きょうれつ | kyōretsu | strong; intense; severe |
| 視野 | しや | shiya | field of vision; outlook |
| 名簿 | めいぼ | meibo | register of names |
| 共働き | ともばたらき | tomobataraki | dual income |
| 恋愛 | れんあい | ren'ai | love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections |
| 増進 | ぞうしん | zōshin | promoting; increase; advance |
| 励む | はげむ | hagemu | to be zealous; to brace oneself; to endeavour; to strive; to make an effort |
| 図る | はかる | hakaru | to plot; to attempt; to plan; to take in; to deceive; to devise; to design; to refer A to B |
| 世論 | せろん | seron | public opinion |
| 弟 | おと | oto | younger brother |
| 申し込み | もうしこみ | mōshikomi | application; entry; request; subscription; offer; proposal; overture; challenge |
| 些事 | さじ | saji | something small or petty; trifle |
| 割り算 | わりざん | warizan | division (math) |
| 暫く | しばらく | shibaraku | little while |
| 営む | いとなむ | itonamu | to carry on (e.g. in ceremony); to run a business |
| 築く | きずく | kizuku | to build; to pile up; to amass |
| 頻繁 | ひんぱん | hinpan | frequency |
| 左様なら | さようなら | sayōnara | good-bye |
| 腕前 | うでまえ | udemae | ability; skill; facility |
| 夜行 | やぎょう | yagyō | walking around at night; night train; night travel |
| 戦術 | せんじゅつ | senjutsu | tactics |
| 突っ張る | つっぱる | tsupparu | to support; to become stiff; to become taut; to thrust (ones opponent); to stick to (ones opinion); to in |
| 一変 | いっぺん | ippen | complete change; about-face |
| サイクル | — | saikuru | cycle |
| 覆面 | ふくめん | fukumen | mask; veil; disguise |
| 抑制 | よくせい | yokusei | suppression |
| 回路 | かいろ | kairo | circuit (electric) |
| フェリー | — | ferī | ferry |
| 帳 | とばり | tobari | curtain |
| 版画 | はんが | hanga | art print |
| 彼方 | あちら | achira | 1. there; yonder; that |
| 傷 | しょう | shō | wound; injury; hurt; cut; gash; bruise; scratch; scar; weak point |
| 協議 | きょうぎ | kyōgi | conference; consultation; discussion; negotiation |
| ガイドブック | — | gaidobukku | guidebook |
| 精巧 | せいこう | seikō | elaborate; delicate; exquisite |
| 辟易 | へきえき | hekieki | wince; shrink back; succumbing to; being frightened; disconcerted |
| 観点 | かんてん | kanten | point of view |
| 態々 | わざわざ | wazawaza | expressly; specially; doing something especially rather than incidentally |
| 承諾 | しょうだく | shōdaku | consent; acquiescence; agreement |
| 保険 | ほけん | hoken | insurance; guarantee |
| 進み | すすみ | susumi | progress |
| 好意 | こうい | kōi | good will; favor; courtesy |
| 無闇に | むやみに | muyamini | unreasonably; absurdly; recklessly; indiscreetly; at random |
| ショー | — | shō | show |
| 数詞 | すうし | sūshi | numeral |
| 廃棄 | はいき | haiki | annullment; disposal; abandon; scrap; discarding; repeal |
| 領域 | りょういき | ryōiki | area; domain; territory; field; region; regime |
| ぶらぶら | — | burabura | dangle heavily; swing; sway to and fro; aimlessly; idly; lazily; loiter; loaf; be idle; stroll idly |
| 教習 | きょうしゅう | kyōshū | training; instruction |
| 有様 | ありさま | arisama | state; condition; circumstances; the way things are or should be; truth |
| レクリエーション | — | rekuriēshon | recreation |
| オープン | — | ōpun | open |
| 厭々 | いやいや | iyaiya | unwillingly; grudgingly; shaking head in refusal (to children) |
| カクテル | — | kakuteru | cocktail |
| 教職 | きょうしょく | kyōshoku | teaching certificate; the teaching profession |
| 記載 | きさい | kisai | mention; entry |
| 決断 | けつだん | ketsudan | decision; determination |
| 凡ゆる | あらゆる | arayuru | all; every |
| 当て | あて | ate | object; aim; end; hopes; expectations |
| アラブ | — | arabu | Arab |
| 明かす | あかす | akasu | to pass; spend; to reveal; to divulge |
| 科 | か | ka | department; section |
| 篭る | こもる | komoru | to seclude oneself; to be confined in; to be implied; to be stuffy |
| 土手 | どて | dote | embankment; bank |
| 合わせ | あわせ | awase | joint together; opposite; facing |
| 適性 | てきせい | tekisei | aptitude |
| 確保 | かくほ | kakuho | guarantee; ensure; maintain; insure; secure |
| 悪戯 | いたずら | itazura | tease; prank; trick; practical joke; mischief |
| 耕作 | こうさく | kōsaku | cultivation; farming |
| 色々 | いろいろ | iroiro | various |
| 権力 | けんりょく | kenryoku | power; authority; influence |
| いっそ | — | isso | rather; sooner; might as well |
| 極端 | きょくたん | kyokutan | extreme; extremity |
| 無邪気 | むじゃき | mujaki | innocence; simple-mindedness |
| 無念 | むねん | munen | chagrin; regret |
| 延いては | ひいては | hiiteha | not only...but also; in addition to; consequently |
| 動揺 | どうよう | dōyō | disturbance; unrest; shaking; trembling; pitching; rolling; oscillation; agitation; excitement; commotion |
| 指差す | ゆびさす | yubisasu | to point at |
| 運命 | うんめい | unmei | fate |
| なんか | — | nanka | things like ...; or something like that .. (often derogatory) |
| 柔軟 | じゅうなん | jūnan | flexible; lithe |
| 結合 | けつごう | ketsugō | combination; union |
| 決勝 | けっしょう | kesshō | decision of a contest; finals (in sports) |
| 尽くす | つくす | tsukusu | to exhaust; to run out; to serve (a person); to befriend |
| 著書 | ちょしょ | chosho | literary work; book |
| 原作 | げんさく | gensaku | original work |
| 疲労 | ひろう | hirō | fatigue; weariness |
| 無難 | ぶなん | bunan | safety; security |
| 忽ち | たちまち | tachimachi | at once; in a moment; suddenly; all at once |
| 身なり | みなり | minari | personal appearance |
| タイミング | — | taimingu | timing |
| 挑戦 | ちょうせん | chōsen | challenge; defiance |
| 脂肪 | しぼう | shibō | fat; grease; blubber |
| 自転 | じてん | jiten | rotation; spin |
| 仏像 | ぶつぞう | butsuzō | Buddhist image (statue) |
| 文化財 | ぶんかざい | bunkazai | cultural assets; cultural property |
| その外 | そのほか | sonohoka | besides; in addition; the rest |
| アワー | — | awā | hour |
| 転勤 | てんきん | tenkin | transfer; transmission |
| 圏 | けん | ken | sphere; circle; range |
| 化石 | かせき | kaseki | fossil; petrifaction; fossilization |
| 容易い | たやすい | tayasui | easy; simple; light |
| 日頃 | ひごろ | higoro | normally; habitually |
| 読者 | どくしゃ | dokusha | reader |
| 血管 | けっかん | kekkan | blood vessel |
| 悪化 | あっか | akka | deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption |
| 然も | さも | samo | with gusto; with satisfaction |
| 読み上げる | よみあげる | yomiageru | to read out loud (and clearly); to call a roll |
| 核 | かく | kaku | nucleus; kernel |
| 奇数 | きすう | kisū | odd number |
| 武装 | ぶそう | busō | arms; armament; armed |
| 記名 | きめい | kimei | signature; register |
| 丸っきり | まるっきり | marukkiri | completely; perfectly; just as if |
| 把握 | はあく | haaku | grasp; catch; understanding |
| 織物 | おりもの | orimono | textile; fabric |
| 当てはまる | あてはまる | atehamaru | to apply (a rule) |
| 養護 | ようご | yōgo | protection; nursing; protective care |
| 出来物 | できもの | dekimono | able man; tumour; growth; boil; ulcer; abcess; rash; pimple |
| 出入り口 | でいりぐち | deiriguchi | exit and entrance |
| 概念 | がいねん | gainen | general idea; concept; notion |
| 一帯 | いったい | ittai | a region; a zone; the whole place |
| 宿命 | しゅくめい | shukumei | fate; destiny; predestination |
| 社交 | しゃこう | shakō | social life; social intercourse |
| 禁ずる | きんずる | kinzuru | to forbid; to suppress |
| 不順 | ふじゅん | fujun | irregularity; unseasonableness |
| 勝利 | しょうり | shōri | victory; triumph; conquest; success; win |
| 杯 | さかずき | sakazuki | wine cups |
| 運搬 | うんぱん | unpan | transport; carriage |
| 手錠 | てじょう | tejō | handcuffs; manacles |
| 雨具 | あまぐ | amagu | rain gear |
| 教え | おしえ | oshie | teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine |
| 河川 | かせん | kasen | rivers |
| 流行 | はやり | hayari | fashionable; fad; in vogue; prevailing |
| この間 | このあいだ | konoaida | the other day; lately; recently |
| 均衡 | きんこう | kinkō | equilibrium; balance |
| 刃 | は | ha | edge (of a sword) |
| 馬鹿らしい | ばからしい | bakarashii | absurd |
| 隠居 | いんきょ | inkyo | retirement; retired person |
| ちやほや | — | chiyahoya | pamper; make a fuss of; spoil |
| 其方 | そちら | sochira | over there; the other |
| 殆ど | ほとんど | hotondo | mostly; almost |
| 就業 | しゅうぎょう | shūgyō | employment; starting work |
| 手掛ける | てがける | tegakeru | to handle; to manage; to work with; to rear; to look after; to have experience with |
| だぶだぶ | — | dabudabu | loose; baggy |
| 悲観 | ひかん | hikan | pessimism; disappointment |
| 告げる | つげる | tsugeru | to inform |
| 証言 | しょうげん | shōgen | evidence; testimony |
| 共稼ぎ | ともかせぎ | tomokasegi | working together; (husband and wife) earning a living together |
| 担う | になう | ninau | to carry on shoulder; to bear (burden); to shoulder (gun) |
| 危機 | きき | kiki | crisis |
| 音色 | おんいろ | on'iro | tone color; tone quality; timbre; synthesizer patch |
| ゲスト | — | gesuto | guest |
| 兼用 | けんよう | ken'yō | multi-use; combined use; combination; serving two purposes |
| 捧げる | ささげる | sasageru | to lift up; to give; to offer; to consecrate; to devote; to sacrifice; to dedicate |
| にも拘らず | にもかかわらず | nimokakawarazu | in spite of; nevertheless |
| 官僚 | かんりょう | kanryō | bureaucrat; bureaucracy |
| 振り出し | ふりだし | furidashi | outset; starting point; drawing or issuing (draft) |
| 監視 | かんし | kanshi | observation; guarding; inspection; surveillance |
| 誠実 | せいじつ | seijitsu | sincere; honest; faithful |
| 逞しい | たくましい | takumashii | burly; strong; sturdy |
| 室 | しつ | shitsu | room |
| 即する | そくする | sokusuru | to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on |
| きちっと | — | kichitto | exactly; perfectly |
| 定義 | ていぎ | teigi | definition |
| 剥ぐ | はぐ | hagu | to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to disrobe; to deprive of |
| 根底 | こんてい | kontei | root; basis; foundation |
| 不審 | ふしん | fushin | incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness; infidelity |
| 何も | なにも | nanimo | nothing |
| 浮気 | うわき | uwaki | flighty; fickle; wanton; unfaithful |
| 持ち | もち | mochi | 1. hold; charge; keep possession; in charge; 2. wear; durability; life; draw; 3. usage (suff) |
| 籤引 | くじびき | kujibiki | lottery; drawn lot |
| 面白い | おもしろい | omoshiroi | interesting; amusing |
| 受身 | うけみ | ukemi | passive; passive voice |
| 萎びる | しなびる | shinabiru | to wilt; to fade |
| タワー | — | tawā | tower |
| 炒める | いためる | itameru | to stir-fry |
| 騙す | だます | damasu | to trick; to cheat; to deceive |
| 西日 | にしび | nishibi | westering sun |
| こだわる | — | kodawaru | to fuss over; to be particular about; to be concerned about |
| 厳密 | げんみつ | genmitsu | strict; close |
| ずぶ濡れ | ずぶぬれ | zubunure | soaked; dripping wet |
| 布告 | ふこく | fukoku | edict; ordinance; proclamation |
| 灯 | ともしび | tomoshibi | light |
| 召す | めす | mesu | to call; to send for; to put on; to wear; to take (a bath); to ride in; to buy; to eat; to drink; to catch (a |
| 話し合い | はなしあい | hanashiai | discussion; conference |
| 皇居 | こうきょ | kōkyo | Imperial Palace |
| さっと | — | satto | quickly; suddenly |
| 街 | がい | gai | ~street; ~quarters |
| 遮る | さえぎる | saegiru | to interrupt; to intercept; to obstruct |
| 一様 | いちよう | ichiyō | uniformity; evenness; similarity; equality; impartiality |
| 渋い | しぶい | shibui | 1. tasteful (clothing); cool; an aura of refined masculinity; 2. astringent; sullen; bitter (taste); 3 |
| 痺れる | しびれる | shibireru | to become numb; to go to sleep (i.e. a limb) |
| 品質 | ひんしつ | hinshitsu | quality |
| かも知れない | かもしれない | kamoshirenai | may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly |
| 他動詞 | たどうし | tadōshi | transitive verb (direct obj) |
| 咎める | とがめる | togameru | to blame; to find fault; to take someone to task; to aggravate (an injury) |
| 風俗 | ふうぞく | fūzoku | 1. manners; customs; 2. sex service; sex industry |
| 小売 | こうり | kōri | retail |
| 温和 | おんわ | onwa | gentle; mild; moderate |
| 花びら | はなびら | hanabira | (flower) petal |
| 用法 | ようほう | yōhō | directions; rules of use |
| 必然 | ひつぜん | hitsuzen | inevitable; necessary |
| 焦げ茶 | こげちゃ | kogecha | black tea |
| 香辛料 | こうしんりょう | kōshinryō | spices |
| 未開 | みかい | mikai | savage land; backward region; uncivilized |
| 利息 | りそく | risoku | interest (bank) |
| 差し出す | さしだす | sashidasu | to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out |
| 筈 | はず | hazu | it should be so |
| 貫く | つらぬく | tsuranuku | to go through |
| 概説 | がいせつ | gaisetsu | general statement; outline |
| 見通し | みとおし | mitōshi | perspective; unobstructed view; outlook; forecast; prospect; insight |
| 改まる | あらたまる | aratamaru | to be renewed |
| 勤め先 | つとめさき | tsutomesaki | place of work |
| 下位 | かい | kai | low rank; subordinate; lower order (e.g. byte) |
| 固定 | こてい | kotei | fixation |
| 乙 | おつ | otsu | 1. strange; quaint; stylish; chic; spicy; queer; witty; tasty; romantic; 2. 2nd in rank; second sign of the |
| 固める | かためる | katameru | to harden; to freeze; to fortify |
| 出合う | であう | deau | to meet by chance; to come across; to happen to encounter; to hold a rendezvous; to have a date |
| 戯曲 | ぎきょく | gikyoku | play; drama |
| やり遂げる | やりとげる | yaritogeru | to accomplish |
| 政権 | せいけん | seiken | administration; political power |
| 悪口 | あっこう | akkō | abuse; insult; slander; evil speaking |
| 末期 | まっき | makki | closing years (period days); last stage |
| 墓地 | はかち | hakachi | cemetery; graveyard |
| 俺 | おれ | ore | I (ego) (boastful first-person pronoun) |
| 冷酷 | れいこく | reikoku | cruelty; coldheartedness; relentless; ruthless |
| 過密 | かみつ | kamitsu | crowded |
| 歯磨 | はみがき | hamigaki | dentifrice; toothpaste |
| 悪い | にくい | nikui | hateful; abominable; poor-looking |
| げっそり | — | gessori | being disheartened; losing weight |
| 初版 | しょはん | shohan | first edition |
| 捻じれる | ねじれる | nejireru | to twist; to wrench; to screw |
| 予言 | かねごと | kanegoto | prediction; promise; prognostication |
| 器 | うつわ | utsuwa | bowl; vessel; container |
| 一同 | いちどう | ichidō | all present; all concerned; all of us |
| 該当 | がいとう | gaitō | corresponding; answering to; coming under |
| デザイン | — | dezain | design |
| 面会 | めんかい | menkai | interview |
| 同士 | どうし | dōshi | fellow; companion; comrade |
| 控える | ひかえる | hikaeru | to draw in; to hold back; to make notes; to be temperate in |
| 悩み | なやみ | nayami | trouble(s); worry; distress; anguish; agony; problem |
| 植民地 | しょくみんち | shokuminchi | colony |
| 漂う | ただよう | tadayō | to drift about; to float; to hang in air |
| 奉る | たてまつる | tatematsuru | to offer; to present; to revere; to do respectfully |
| 逃げ出す | にげだす | nigedasu | to run away; to escape from |
| 写し | うつし | utsushi | copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript |
| 潜水 | せんすい | sensui | diving |
| 相変わらず | あいかわらず | aikawarazu | as ever; as usual; the same |
| 差し掛かる | さしかかる | sashikakaru | to come near to; to approach |
| 其処で | そこで | sokode | so (conj); accordingly; now; then; thereupon |
| 救援 | きゅうえん | kyūen | relief; rescue; reinforcement |
| 揉める | もめる | momeru | to disagree; to dispute |
| 補充 | ほじゅう | hojū | supplementation; supplement; replenishment; replenishing |
| 各種 | かくしゅ | kakushu | every kind; all sorts |
| 気質 | かたぎ | katagi | spirit; character; trait; temperament; disposition |
| 帯びる | おびる | obiru | to wear; to carry; to be entrusted; to have; to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with |
| 感無量 | かんむりょう | kanmuryō | deep feeling; inexpressible feeling; filled with emotion |
| 然しながら | しかしながら | shikashinagara | nevertheless; however |
| 向け | むけ | muke | for ~; oriented towards ~ |
| 空しい | むなしい | munashii | vacant; futile; vain; void; empty; ineffective; lifeless |
| 襲う | おそう | osō | to attack |
| 不便 | ふびん | fubin | pity; compassion |
| 年鑑 | ねんかん | nenkan | yearbook |
| 留める | とどめる | todomeru | to stop; to cease; to put an end to |
| タイル | — | tairu | tile |
| 山脈 | さんみゃく | sanmyaku | mountain range |
| 排水 | はいすい | haisui | drainage |
| 上回る | うわまわる | uwamawaru | to exceed |
| 強制 | きょうせい | kyōsei | obligation; coercion; compulsion; enforcement |
| 新入生 | しんにゅうせい | shinnyūsei | freshman; first-year student |
| 仮 | か | ka | tentative; provisional |
| 学歴 | がくれき | gakureki | academic background |
| シート | — | shīto | seat; sheet |
| 戦災 | せんさい | sensai | war damage |
| 混血 | こんけつ | konketsu | mixed race; mixed parentage |
| 津波 | つなみ | tsunami | tsunami; tidal wave |
| 出鱈目 | でたらめ | detarame | irresponsible utterance; nonsense; nonsensical; random; haphazard; unsystematic |
| 目蓋 | まぶた | mabuta | eyelid |
| 間々 | まま | mama | occasionally; frequently |
| 簡素 | かんそ | kanso | simplicity; plain |
| ルール | — | rūru | rule |
| 繁盛 | はんじょう | hanjō | prosperity; flourishing; thriving |
| 塵取り | ちりとり | chiritori | dustpan |
| 吊るす | つるす | tsurusu | to hang |
| 顔付き | かおつき | kaotsuki | (outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression |
| 定年 | ていねん | teinen | retirement age |
| 世代 | せだい | sedai | generation; the world; the age |
| 本音 | ほんね | honne | real intention; motive |
| 運送 | うんそう | unsō | shipping; marine transportation |
| 分裂 | ぶんれつ | bunretsu | split; division; break up |
| ホース | — | hōsu | hose |
| 電源 | でんげん | dengen | source of electricity; power (button on TV etc.) |
| 年輪 | ねんりん | nenrin | annual tree ring |
| 外貨 | がいか | gaika | imported goods; foreign money |
| 人格 | じんかく | jinkaku | personality; character; individuality |
| 日向 | ひなた | hinata | sunny place; in the sun |
| 気配 | きはい | kihai | indication; market trend; worry |
| 見舞 | みまい | mimai | enquiry; expression of sympathy; expression of concern |
| 少女 | おとめ | otome | daughter; young lady; virgin; maiden; little girl |
| 微塵 | みじん | mijin | particle; atom |
| 美味しい | おいしい | oishii | delicious; tasty |
| 臆病 | おくびょう | okubyō | cowardice; timidity |
| 費 | ひ | hi | cost; expense |
| 誂える | あつらえる | atsuraeru | to give an order; to place an order |
| 保母 | ほぼ | hobo | day care worker in a kindergarten nursery school etc. |
| 汚す | けがす | kegasu | to disgrace; to dishonour |
| 姓名 | せいめい | seimei | full name |
| 重宝 | じゅうほう | jūhō | priceless treasure; convenience; usefulness |
| 差額 | さがく | sagaku | balance; difference; margin |
| 御免ください | ごめんください | gomenkudasai | May I come in? |
| 大ざっぱ | おおざっぱ | ōzappa | rough (as in not precise); broad; sketchy |
| 近視 | きんし | kinshi | shortsightedness |
| 分配 | ぶんぱい | bunpai | division; sharing |
| 然して | そして | soshite | and |
| 農場 | のうじょう | nōjō | farm (agriculture) |
| 流し | ながし | nagashi | sink |
| 不況 | ふきょう | fukyō | recession; depression; slump |
| 易い | やすい | yasui | easy |
| 甘える | あまえる | amaeru | to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on |
| 同調 | どうちょう | dōchō | sympathy; agree with; alignment; tuning |
| 滅びる | ほろびる | horobiru | to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed |
| 講読 | こうどく | kōdoku | reading; translation |
| アマチュア | — | amachua | amateur |
| お産 | おさん | osan | (giving) birth |
| 省みる | かえりみる | kaerimiru | to reflect |
| 花粉 | かふん | kafun | pollen |
| 粋 | いき | iki | chic; style; purity; essence |
| 責務 | せきむ | sekimu | duty; obligation |
| 余暇 | よか | yoka | leisure; leisure time; spare time |
| 転回 | てんかい | tenkai | revolution; rotation |
| 伴う | ともなう | tomonau | to accompany; to bring with; to be accompanied by; to be involved in |
| 誇る | ほこる | hokoru | to boast of; to be proud of |
| 繁殖 | はんしょく | hanshoku | breed; multiply; increase; propagation |
| 問 | もん | mon | problem; question |
| 原子 | げんし | genshi | atom |
| 及ぶ | およぶ | oyobu | to reach; to come up to; to amount to; to befall; to happen to; to extend; to match; to equal |
| 他人 | あだびと | adabito | another person; unrelated person; outsider; stranger |
| 組み合わせる | くみあわせる | kumiawaseru | to join together; to combine; to join up |
| 立ち寄る | たちよる | tachiyoru | to stop by; to drop in for a short visit |
| 反撃 | はんげき | hangeki | counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow |
| 入賞 | にゅうしょう | nyūshō | winning a prize or place (in a contest) |
| 於 | お | o | at; in; on |
| 方式 | ほうしき | hōshiki | form; method; system |
| 報道 | ほうどう | hōdō | information; report |
| 棟 | とう | tō | place; section; building |
| 動的 | どうてき | dōteki | dynamic; kinetic |
| 巨 | こ | ko | big; large; great |
| 館 | かん | kan | house; hall; building; hotel; inn; guesthouse |
| 利潤 | りじゅん | rijun | profit; returns |
| その為 | そのため | sonotame | hence; for that reason |
| 微量 | びりょう | biryō | minuscule amount; extremely small quantity |
| 実 | じつ | jitsu | truth; reality; sincerity; fidelity; kindness; faith; substance; essence |
| しょっちゅう | — | shotchū | always; constantly |
| オートマチック | — | ōtomachikku | automatic |
| 決まる | きまる | kimaru | to be decided; to be settled; to look good in (clothes) |
| 揺らぐ | ゆらぐ | yuragu | to swing; to sway; to shake; to tremble |
| 新婚 | しんこん | shinkon | newly-wed |
| 賜る | たまわる | tamawaru | to grant; to bestow |
| 個別 | こべつ | kobetsu | particular case |
| 微笑 | びしょう | bishō | smile |
| 兎も角 | ともかく | tomokaku | anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case |
| 適宜 | てきぎ | tekigi | suitability |
| 争い | あらそい | arasoi | dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry; contest |
| 祈り | いのり | inori | prayer; supplication |
| 氾濫 | はんらん | hanran | overflowing; flood |
| ユニフォーム | — | yunifōmu | uniform |
| 是非とも | ぜひとも | zehitomo | by all means (with sense of not taking no for an answer) |
| 両立 | りょうりつ | ryōritsu | compatibility; coexistence; standing together |
| 通りかかる | とおりかかる | tōrikakaru | to happen to pass by |
| 退化 | たいか | taika | degeneration; retrogression |
| 結び付き | むすびつき | musubitsuki | connection; relation |
| 設ける | もうける | mōkeru | to create; to establish |
| 病む | やむ | yamu | to fall ill; to be ill |
| 塩 | えん | en | salt |
| ストライキ | — | sutoraiki | strike |
| 付け加える | つけくわえる | tsukekuwaeru | to add one thing to another |
| 嘗て | かつて | katsute | once; ever |
| 反する | はんする | hansuru | to be inconsistent with; to oppose; to contradict; to transgress; to rebel |
| 副 | とりわけ | toriwake | especially; above all |
| 抽選 | ちゅうせん | chūsen | lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots) |
| 代弁 | だいべん | daiben | pay by proxy; act for another; speak for another |
| 見合い | みあい | miai | formal marriage interview |
| 式場 | しきじょう | shikijō | ceremonial hall; place of ceremony (e.g. marriage) |
| 指摘 | してき | shiteki | pointing out; identification |
| 新 | しん | shin | new |
| 節 | せつ | setsu | node; section; occasion; time |
| 汚れる | けがれる | kegareru | to get dirty; to become dirty |
| 野心 | やしん | yashin | ambition; aspiration; designs; treachery |
| 華々しい | はなばなしい | hanabanashii | brilliant; magnificent; spectacular |
| 崖 | がけ | gake | cliff |
| 教員 | きょういん | kyōin | teaching staff |
| 眉 | まゆ | mayu | eyebrow |
| 短縮 | たんしゅく | tanshuku | shortening; abbreviation; reduction |
| もろに | — | moroni | completely; all the way |
| 志向 | しこう | shikō | intention; aim |
| 為来り | しきたり | shikitari | customs |
| 本能 | ほんのう | honnō | instinct |
| 良好 | りょうこう | ryōkō | favorable; satisfactory |
| 配慮 | はいりょ | hairyo | consideration; concern; forethought |
| 腹立ち | はらだち | haradachi | anger |
| 適応 | てきおう | tekiō | adaptation; accommodation; conformity |
| 申出 | もうしで | mōshide | proposal; request; claim; report; notice |
| 夜具 | やぐ | yagu | bedding |
| 孤立 | こりつ | koritsu | isolation; helplessness |
| 封建 | ほうけん | hōken | feudalistic |
| 発育 | はついく | hatsuiku | (physical) growth; development |
| 釣り | つり | tsuri | fishing; angling |
| 年長 | ねんちょう | nenchō | seniority |
| 妊娠 | にんしん | ninshin | conception; pregnancy |
| 幹線 | かんせん | kansen | main line; trunk line |
| 海運 | かいうん | kaiun | maritime; marine transportation |
| 申し分 | もうしぶん | mōshibun | objection; shortcomings |
| 傾ける | かたむける | katamukeru | to incline; to list; to bend; to lean; to tip; to tilt; to slant; to concentrate on; to ruin (a country); to |
| 恵む | めぐむ | megumu | to bless; to show mercy to |
| 動員 | どういん | dōin | mobilization |
| 雛 | ひな | hina | young bird; chick; doll |
| おどおど | — | odōdo | coweringly; hesitantly |
| 金庫 | かねぐら | kanegura | safe; vault; treasury; provider of funds |
| 断面 | だんめん | danmen | cross section |
| 同盟 | どうめい | dōmei | alliance; union; league |
| 使い道 | つかいみち | tsukaimichi | use |
| 引き取る | ひきとる | hikitoru | to take charge of; to take over; to retire to a private place |
| 入る | いる | iru | to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in |
| 単 | ひとえ | hitoe | one layer; single |
| 宣言 | せんげん | sengen | declaration; proclamation; announcement |
| 効き目 | ききめ | kikime | effect; virtue; efficacy; impression |
| ビジネス | — | bijinesu | business |
| 現行 | げんこう | genkō | present; current; in operation |
| 大便 | だいべん | daiben | feces; excrement; shit |
| 貶す | けなす | kenasu | to speak ill of |
| 郷愁 | きょうしゅう | kyōshū | nostalgia; homesickness |
| 文 | ふみ | fumi | letter; writings |
| 手筈 | てはず | tehazu | arrangement; plan; programme |
| 語句 | ごく | goku | words; phrases |
| 依って | よって | yotte | therefore; consequently; accordingly; because of |
| 規定 | きてい | kitei | regulation; provisions |
| 演習 | えんしゅう | enshū | practice; exercises; manoeuvers |
| 何れ | いずれ | izure | where; which; who; anyway; anyhow; at any rate |
| 明くる | あくる | akuru | next; following |
| 倣 | ほう | hō | imitate; follow; emulate |
| 如何しても | どうしても | dōshitemo | by all means; at any cost; no matter what; after all; in the long run; cravingly; at any rate; surely |
| 敢えて | あえて | aete | dare (to do); challenge (to do) |
| 済みません | すみません | sumimasen | sorry; excuse me |
| 支持 | しじ | shiji | support; maintenance |
| 熱量 | ねつりょう | netsuryō | temperature |
| 真心 | まこころ | makokoro | sincerity; devotion |
| 後回し | あとまわし | atomawashi | putting off; postponing |
| 代用 | だいよう | daiyō | substitution |
| 衆 | しゅう | shū | masses; great number; the people |
| 校 | こう | kō | -school; proof |
| 絶える | たえる | taeru | to die out; to peter out; to become extinct |
| 統合 | とうごう | tōgō | integration; unification; synthesis |
| 止める | とどめる | todomeru | to stop; to cease; to put an end to |
| 首飾り | くびかざり | kubikazari | necklace |
| 工学 | こうがく | kōgaku | engineering |
| 働 | どう | dō | work; labor |
| 業 | ごう | gō | Buddhist karma; actions committed in a former life |
| 保養 | ほよう | hoyō | health preservation; recuperation; recreation |
| 発 | はつ | hatsu | departure; beginning; counter for gunshots |
| うんざり | — | unzari | tedious; boring; being fed up with |
| 樹立 | じゅりつ | juritsu | establish; create |
| 真相 | しんそう | shinsō | truth; real situation |
| 英字 | えいじ | eiji | English letter (character) |
| 口ずさむ | くちずさむ | kuchizusamu | to hum something; to sing to oneself |
| 拝啓 | はいけい | haikei | Dear (so and so) |
| ベース | — | bēsu | base; bass |
| 始め | はじめ | hajime | beginning; start; origin |
| 追い出す | おいだす | oidasu | to expel; to drive out |
| 中枢 | ちゅうすう | chūsū | centre; pivot; mainstay; nucleus; backbone; central figure; pillar; key man |
| 傾斜 | けいしゃ | keisha | inclination; slant; slope; bevel; list; dip |
| 命中 | めいちゅう | meichū | a hit |
| 盾 | たて | tate | shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext |
| 結晶 | けっしょう | kesshō | crystal; crystallization |
| 山岳 | さんがく | sangaku | mountains |
| 沈没 | ちんぼつ | chinbotsu | sinking; foundering |
| 出品 | しゅっぴん | shuppin | exhibit; display |
| 滞る | とどこおる | todokōru | to stagnate; to be delayed |
| 親しむ | したしむ | shitashimu | to be intimate with; to befriend |
| 強める | つよめる | tsuyomeru | to strengthen; to emphasize |
| 遅らす | おくらす | okurasu | to retard; to delay |
| 勢力 | せいりょく | seiryoku | influence; power; might; strength; potency; force; energy |
| 清濁 | せいだく | seidaku | good and evil; purity and impurity |
| スポーツカー | — | supōtsukā | sports car |
| 異動 | いどう | idō | a change |
| 十分 | じっぷん | jippun | 10 minutes |
| 遣る | やる | yaru | to do; to have sexual intercourse; to kill; to give (to inferiors animals etc.); to dispatch (a letter |
| 策 | さく | saku | plan; policy |
| 打付ける | ぶつける | butsukeru | to knock; to run into; to nail on; to strike hard; to hit and attack |
| 鉄鋼 | てっこう | tekkō | iron and steel |
| とんだ | — | tonda | terrible; awful; serious; preposterous; absolutely not |
| 柵 | さく | saku | fence; paling |
| ジャズ | — | jazu | jazz |
| 地獄 | じごく | jigoku | hell |
| 達成 | たっせい | tassei | achievement |
| 弁償 | べんしょう | benshō | next word; compensation; reparation; indemnity; reimbursement |
| 精密 | せいみつ | seimitsu | precise; exact; detailed; minute; close |
| 丸める | まるめる | marumeru | to make round; to round off; to roll up; to curl up; to seduce; to cajole; to explain away |
| 爆破 | ばくは | bakuha | blast; explosion; blow up |
| 物体 | ぶったい | buttai | body; object |
| 道場 | どうじょう | dōjō | dojo; hall used for martial arts training; mandala |
| 生育 | せいいく | seiiku | growth; development; breeding |
| 野生 | やせい | yasei | wild |
| いい加減 | いいかげん | iikagen | moderate; right; random; not thorough; vague; irresponsible; halfhearted |
| 過多 | かた | kata | excess; superabundance |
| 報ずる | ほうずる | hōzuru | to inform; to report |
| 拡散 | かくさん | kakusan | scattering; diffusion |
| 外来 | がいらい | gairai | imported; outpatient clinic |
| 悲惨 | ひさん | hisan | misery |
| 主権 | しゅけん | shuken | sovereignty; supremacy; dominion |
| 裾 | すそ | suso | (trouser) cuff; (skirt) hem; cut edge of a hairdo; foot of mountain |
| 桟橋 | さんきょう | sankyō | wharf; bridge; jetty; pier |
| 渡り鳥 | わたりどり | wataridori | migratory bird; bird of passage |
| 私有 | しゆう | shiyū | private ownership |
| 見地 | けんち | kenchi | point of view |
| 採集 | さいしゅう | saishū | collecting; gathering |
| ストロボ | — | sutorobo | stroboscope (lit: strobo); strobe lamp; stroboscopic lamp |
| 何時も | いつも | itsumo | always; usually; every time; never (with neg. verb) |
| 台本 | だいほん | daihon | libretto; scenario |
| 放射 | ほうしゃ | hōsha | radiation; emission |
| 信者 | しんじゃ | shinja | believer; adherent; devotee; Christian |
| 暗示 | あんじ | anji | hint; suggestion |
| 裂ける | さける | sakeru | to split; to tear; to burst |
| 妨害 | ぼうがい | bōgai | disturbance; obstruction; hindrance; jamming; interference |
| 確り | しっかり | shikkari | firmly; tightly; reliable; level-headed; steady |
| 原点 | げんてん | genten | origin (coordinates); starting point |
| 飲み込む | のみこむ | nomikomu | to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to catch on to; to learn; to digest |
| 何しろ | なにしろ | nanishiro | at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case |
| 贋物 | がんぶつ | ganbutsu | imitation; counterfeit; forgery; sham |
| 可笑しい | おかしい | okashii | strange; funny; amusing; ridiculous |
| 主催 | しゅさい | shusai | organization; sponsorship |
| 優勢 | ゆうせい | yūsei | superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance |
| 解剖 | かいぼう | kaibō | dissection; autopsy |
| 驚異 | きょうい | kyōi | wonder; miracle |
| 貧弱 | ひんじゃく | hinjaku | poor; meagre; insubstantial |
| モーテル | — | mōteru | motel |
| 配偶者 | はいぐうしゃ | haigūsha | spouse; wife; husband |
| 子息 | しそく | shisoku | son |
| 認める | したためる | shitatameru | to write up |
| 昼飯 | ちゅうはん | chūhan | lunch; midday meal |
| 収集 | しゅうしゅう | shūshū | gathering up; collection; accumulation |
| 受け付ける | うけつける | uketsukeru | to be accepted; to receive (an application) |
| 侮辱 | ぶじょく | bujoku | insult; contempt; slight |
| 鉄片 | てっぺん | teppen | iron scraps |
| 非行 | ひこう | hikō | delinquency; misconduct |
| 其れで | それで | sorede | and (conj); thereupon; because of that |
| 軽減 | けいげん | keigen | abatement |
| がっしり | — | gasshiri | firmly; solidly; tough |
| 真ん丸い | まんまるい | manmarui | perfectly circular |
| 育成 | いくせい | ikusei | rearing; training; nurture; cultivation; promotion |
| 納入 | のうにゅう | nōnyū | payment; supply |
| 其れ程 | それほど | sorehodo | to that degree; extent |
| 恐れ入る | おそれいる | osoreiru | to be filled with awe; to feel small; to be amazed; to be surprised; to be disconcerted; to be sorry; to b |
| 粘り | ねばり | nebari | stickyness; viscosity |
| 見渡す | みわたす | miwatasu | to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of |
| 金槌 | かなづち | kanazuchi | 1. (iron) hammer; 2. punishment |
| 試み | こころみ | kokoromi | trial; experiment |
| 提携 | ていけい | teikei | cooperation; tie-up; joint business; link-up |
| 募る | つのる | tsunoru | to invite; to solicit help participation etc |
| 踏まえる | ふまえる | fumaeru | to be based on; to have origin in |
| 艶 | えん | en | charming; fascinating; voluptuous |
| 世 | よ | yo | world; society; age; generation |
| ゆとり | — | yutori | reserve; affluence; room; time (to spare) |
| 浅ましい | あさましい | asamashii | wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject |
| 球根 | きゅうこん | kyūkon | (plant) bulb |
| 徐行 | じょこう | jokō | going slowly |
| 躊躇う | ためらう | tamerau | to hesitate |
| じゃん拳 | じゃんけん | janken | rock-scissors-paper game |
| 養成 | ようせい | yōsei | training; development |
| 増し | まし | mashi | extra; additional; less objectionable; better; preferable |
| 他意 | たい | tai | ill will; malice; another intention; secret purpose; ulterior motive; fickleness; double-mindedness |
| エアメール | — | eamēru | air mail |
| 愛でたい | めでたい | medetai | auspicious |
| マーク | — | māku | mark |
| 緩める | ゆるめる | yurumeru | to loosen; to slow down |
| 何時 | いつ | itsu | when; how soon |
| 情け | なさけ | nasake | sympathy; compassion |
| 地形 | じぎょう | jigyō | terrain; geographical features; topography |
| 契機 | けいき | keiki | opportunity; chance |
| 症 | しょう | shō | illness |
| 設置 | せっち | setchi | establishment; institution |
| 等級 | とうきゅう | tōkyū | grade; class |
| 錯誤 | さくご | sakugo | mistake |
| 記述 | きじゅつ | kijutsu | describing; descriptor |
| 選考 | せんこう | senkō | selection; screening |
| ジャンル | — | janru | genre |
| 値打ち | ねうち | neuchi | value; worth; price; dignity |
| 粘る | ねばる | nebaru | to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to |
| 物足りない | ものたりない | monotarinai | unsatisfied; unsatisfactory |
| 肺 | はい | hai | lung |
| 潮 | うしお | ushio | tide |
| 国有 | こくゆう | kokuyū | national ownership |
| レンジ | — | renji | range; stove |
| 夕焼け | ゆうやけ | yūyake | sunset |
| 鬱陶しい | うっとうしい | uttōshii | gloomy; depressing |
| 揃い | そろい | soroi | set; suit; uniform |
| 正規 | せいき | seiki | regular; legal; formal; established; legitimate |
| 間違う | まちがう | machigau | to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken |
| 美術 | びじゅつ | bijutsu | art; fine arts |
| びり | — | biri | last on the list; at the bottom |
| 或る | ある | aru | a certain...; some... |
| 売れ行き | うれゆき | ureyuki | sales |
| 初耳 | はつみみ | hatsumimi | something heard for the first time |
| 墜落 | ついらく | tsuiraku | falling; crashing |
| 悩ます | なやます | nayamasu | to afflict; to torment; to harass; to molest |
| 土台 | どだい | dodai | foundation; base; basis |
| 旦那 | だんな | danna | master (of house); husband (informal) |
| 公認 | こうにん | kōnin | official recognition; authorization; licence; accreditation |
| 進呈 | しんてい | shintei | presentation |
| 自我 | じが | jiga | self; the ego |
| 体格 | たいかく | taikaku | physique; constitution |
| 退治 | たいじ | taiji | extermination |
| 比率 | ひりつ | hiritsu | ratio; proportion; percentage |
| 重役 | おもやく | omoyaku | heavy responsibilities; director |
| 物好き | ものずき | monozuki | curiosity |
| 化合 | かごう | kagō | chemical combination |
| 実情 | じつじょう | jitsujō | real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs |
| 財政 | ざいせい | zaisei | economy; financial affairs |
| 見合わせる | みあわせる | miawaseru | to exchange glances; to postpone; to suspend operations; to refrain from performing an action |
| 選挙 | せんきょ | senkyo | election |
| 漠然 | ばくぜん | bakuzen | obscure; vague; equivocal |
| 自尊心 | じそんしん | jisonshin | self-respect; conceit |
| 乱れる | みだれる | midareru | to get confused; to be disordered; to be disturbed |
| 修士 | しゅうし | shūshi | Masters degree program |
| 出費 | しゅっぴ | shuppi | expenses; disbursements |
| 筒 | つつ | tsutsu | pipe; tube |
| 軍 | いくさ | ikusa | war; battle; campaign; fight |
| 潜入 | せんにゅう | sennyū | infiltration; sneaking in |
| 果たす | はたす | hatasu | to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out; to achieve |
| 燃焼 | ねんしょう | nenshō | burning; combustion |
| 簡潔 | かんけつ | kanketsu | brevity; conciseness; simplicity |
| 対応 | たいおう | taiō | interaction; correspondence; coping with; dealing with |
| 彼処 | あそこ | asoko | 1. (uk) there; over there; that place; 2. (X) (col) genitals |
| 諸 | しょ | sho | various; many; several |
| 豊作 | ほうさく | hōsaku | abundant harvest; bumper crop |
| 不図 | ふと | futo | suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally |
| メーカー | — | mēkā | maker |
| 稍 | やや | yaya | a little; partially; somewhat; a short time; a while |
| 犠牲 | ぎせい | gisei | sacrifice |
| その内 | そのうち | sonōchi | eventually; sooner or later; of the previously mentioned |
| 誘導 | ゆうどう | yūdō | guidance; leading; induction; introduction; incitement; inducement |
| ロープ | — | rōpu | rope |
| 民主 | みんしゅ | minshu | democratic; the head of the nation |
| お出でになる | おいでになる | oideninaru | to be |
| 見せ物 | みせもの | misemono | show; exhibition |
| パジャマ | — | pajama | pajamas; pyjamas |
| 其れから | それから | sorekara | and then; after that |
| 控除 | こうじょ | kōjo | subsidy; deduction |
| ラベル | — | raberu | label |
| 名称 | めいしょう | meishō | name |
| 介入 | かいにゅう | kainyū | intervention |
| 雇用 | こよう | koyō | employment (long term); hire |
| 入手 | にゅうしゅ | nyūshu | obtaining; coming to hand |
| 好評 | こうひょう | kōhyō | popularity; favorable reputation |
| 概略 | がいりゃく | gairyaku | outline; summary; gist; in brief |
| 殿 | しんがり | shingari | rear; rear unit guard |
| 陶器 | とうき | tōki | pottery; ceramics |
| 救済 | きゅうさい | kyūsai | relief; aid; rescue; salvation; help |
| 生真面目 | きまじめ | kimajime | too serious; person who is too serious; honesty; sincerity |
| 側面 | そくめん | sokumen | side; flank; sidelight; lateral |
| けれど | — | keredo | but; however |
| ブザー | — | buzā | buzzer |
| 不調 | ふちょう | fuchō | bad condition; not to work out (ie a deal); disagreement; break-off; disorder; slump; out of form |
| 形成 | けいせい | keisei | formation |
| 短大 | たんだい | tandai | junior college |
| 誇張 | こちょう | kochō | exaggeration |
| 善良 | ぜんりょう | zenryō | goodness; excellence; virtue |
| 火星 | かせい | kasei | Mars (planet) |
| 染みる | しみる | shimiru | to pierce; to permeate |
| ドライバー | — | doraibā | driver; screwdriver |
| 辛抱 | しんぼう | shinbō | patience; endurance |
| 絶版 | ぜっぱん | zeppan | out of print |
| 焦る | あせる | aseru | to be in a hurry; to be impatient |
| 愛想 | あいそ | aiso | civility; courtesy; compliments; sociability; graces |
| 御覧なさい | ごらんなさい | gorannasai | (please) look; (please) try to do |
| 警部 | けいぶ | keibu | police inspector |
| 何時までも | いつまでも | itsumademo | forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely |
| 断然 | だんぜん | danzen | firmly; absolutely; definitely |
| 爆弾 | ばくだん | bakudan | bomb |
| 経る | へる | heru | to pass; to elapse; to experience |
| マッサージ | — | massāji | massage |
| 取り混ぜる | とりまぜる | torimazeru | to mix; to put together |
| 多忙 | たぼう | tabō | busy; pressure of work |
| 演出 | えんしゅつ | enshutsu | production (e.g. play); direction |
| 刺繍 | ししゅう | shishū | embroidery |
| 主観 | しゅかん | shukan | subjectivity; subject; ego |
| 回送 | かいそう | kaisō | forwarding |
| 私物 | しぶつ | shibutsu | private property; personal effects |
| 補償 | ほしょう | hoshō | compensation; reparation |
| 小柄 | こがら | kogara | short (build) |
| 下痢 | げり | geri | diarrhoea |
| 所で | ところで | tokorode | by the way; even if; no matter what |
| 強硬 | きょうこう | kyōkō | firm; vigorous; unbending; unyielding; strong; stubborn |
| 侍 | さむらい | samurai | Samurai; warrior |
| 合わす | あわす | awasu | to join together; to face; to unite; to be opposite; to combine; to connect; to add up; to mix; to match; to |
| 真っ二つ | まっぷたつ | mapputatsu | in two equal parts |
| 勧告 | かんこく | kankoku | advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation |
| 体験 | たいけん | taiken | personal experience |
| 衣類 | いるい | irui | clothes; clothing; garments |
| 干渉 | かんしょう | kanshō | interference; intervention |
| 不味い | まずい | mazui | unappetising; unpleasant (taste appearance situation); ugly; unskilful; awkward; bungling; unwise; untime |
| 年号 | ねんごう | nengō | name of an era; year number |
| オレンジ | — | orenji | an orange |
| 値 | あたい | atai | value; price; cost; worth; merit |
| 平行 | へいこう | heikō | (going) side by side; concurrent; abreast; at the same time; occurring together; parallel; parallelism |
| 遠方 | えんぽう | enpō | long way; distant place |
| 傷付く | きずつく | kizutsuku | to be hurt; to be wounded; to get injured |
| 斜面 | しゃめん | shamen | slope; slanting surface; bevel |
| 紛れる | まぎれる | magireru | to be diverted; to slip into |
| 施す | ほどこす | hodokosu | to donate; to give; to conduct; to apply; to perform |
| お八 | おやつ | oyatsu | 1. (uk) between meal snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea; 2. mid-day snack |
| お宮 | おみや | omiya | Shinto shrine |
| 資格 | しかく | shikaku | qualifications; requirements; capabilities |
| 炙る | あぶる | aburu | to scorch |
| 吐く | つく | tsuku | 1. to breathe; 2. to tell (lies); 3. to vomit; to disgorge |
| 木綿 | きわた | kiwata | cotton |
| 上がる | あがる | agaru | to enter; to go up; to rise; to climb up; to advance; to appreciate; to be promoted; to improve; to call on; |
| ナンセンス | — | nansensu | nonsense |
| 擦れる | すれる | sureru | to rub; to chafe; to wear; to become sophisticated |
| 労力 | ろうりょく | rōryoku | labour; effort; toil; trouble |
| 女子 | おなご | onago | woman; girl |
| 引きずる | ひきずる | hikizuru | to seduce; to drag along; to pull; to prolong; to support |
| 尚更 | なおさら | naosara | all the more; still less |
| 前途 | ぜんと | zento | future prospects; outlook; the journey ahead |
| ヤング | — | yangu | young |
| 作 | さく | saku | a work; a harvest |
| 清らか | きよらか | kiyoraka | clean; pure; chaste |
| センス | — | sensu | good sense (for music style tact etc.) |
| 粉末 | ふんまつ | funmatsu | fine powder |
| 真理 | しんり | shinri | truth |
| 同居 | どうきょ | dōkyo | living together |
| 御手洗い | おてあらい | otearai | toilet; restroom; lavatory; bathroom (US) |
| 迚も | とても | totemo | very; awfully; exceedingly |
| 欲望 | よくぼう | yokubō | desire; appetite |
| 着目 | ちゃくもく | chakumoku | attention |
| 辿る | たどる | tadoru | to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up |
| 所が | ところが | tokoroga | however; while; even if |
| 網 | あみ | ami | net; network |
| 画 | かく | kaku | stroke |
| 掌 | たなごころ | tanagokoro | the palm |
| 証拠 | しょうこ | shōko | evidence; proof |
| 加入 | かにゅう | kanyū | becoming a member; joining; entry; admission; subscription; affiliation; adherence; signing |
| 後退 | こうたい | kōtai | retreat; backspace (BS) |
| 埋まる | うずまる | uzumaru | to be buried; to be surrounded; to overflow; to be filled |
| 歪む | いがむ | igamu | to warp; to swerve; to deflect; to be crooked; to be distorted; to be bent; to incline; to slant; to be perv |
| 捕らえる | とらえる | toraeru | to seize; to grasp; to capture; to arrest |
| 擦れ違い | すれちがい | surechigai | chance encounter |
| 軽率 | けいそつ | keisotsu | rash; thoughtless; careless; hasty |
| 冬眠 | とうみん | tōmin | hibernation; winter sleep |
| 教訓 | きょうくん | kyōkun | lesson; precept; moral instruction |
| 倹約 | けんやく | ken'yaku | thrift; economy; frugality |
| 不動産 | ふどうさん | fudōsan | real estate |
| 当選 | とうせん | tōsen | being elected; winning the prize |
| 躾 | しつけ | shitsuke | home discipline; training; upbringing; breeding |
| 矢 | や | ya | arrow |
| 土俵 | どひょう | dohyō | arena |
| 私 | あたし | atashi | I (fem) |
| 不在 | ふざい | fuzai | absence |
| ルーズ | — | rūzu | loose |
| 特有 | とくゆう | tokuyū | characteristic (of); peculiar (to) |
| 日付 | かづけ | kazuke | date; dating |
| 代わる代わる | かわるがわる | kawarugawaru | alternately |
| 技能 | ぎのう | ginō | technical skill; ability; capacity |
| 地主 | じぬし | jinushi | landlord |
| 付属 | ふぞく | fuzoku | attached; belonging; affiliated; annexed; associated; subordinate; incidental; dependent; auxiliary |
| 立体 | りったい | rittai | solid body |
| ライス | — | raisu | rice |
| 尊い | たっとい | tattoi | precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred |
| 嘸 | さぞ | sazo | I am sure; certainly; no doubt |
| 赤らむ | あからむ | akaramu | to become red; to redden; to blush |
| 捕獲 | ほかく | hokaku | capture; seizure |
| 星座 | せいざ | seiza | constellation |
| 一人でに | ひとりでに | hitorideni | by itself; automatically; naturally |
| 下調べ | したしらべ | shitashirabe | preliminary investigation; preparation |
| 明々後日 | しあさって | shiasatte | two days after tomorrow |
| 慣用 | かんよう | kan'yō | common; customary |
| 滑稽 | こっけい | kokkei | funny; humorous; comical; laughable; ridiculous; joking |
| 無用 | むよう | muyō | useless; futility; needlessness; unnecessariness |
| 勧誘 | かんゆう | kan'yū | invitation; solicitation; canvassing; inducement; persuasion; encouragement |
| 進行 | しんこう | shinkō | advance |
| 前例 | ぜんれい | zenrei | precedent |
| 茎 | くき | kuki | stalk |
| 垂れる | たれる | tareru | to hang; to droop; to drop; to lower; to pull down; to dangle; to sag; to drip; to ooze; to trickle; to leave |
| 綻びる | ほころびる | hokorobiru | to come apart at the seams; to begin to open; to smile broadly |
| 役立つ | やくだつ | yakudatsu | to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose |
| 絶望 | ぜつぼう | zetsubō | despair; hopelessness |
| 点火 | てんか | tenka | ignition; lighting; set fire to |
| 生かす | いかす | ikasu | to revive; to resuscitate; to make use of |
| 最早 | もはや | mohaya | already; now |
| お襁褓 | おむつ | omutsu | diaper; nappy |
| 漁船 | ぎょせん | gyosen | fishing boat |
| 司法 | しほう | shihō | administration of justice |
| 捜査 | そうさ | sōsa | search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation |
| 遠回り | とおまわり | tōmawari | detour; roundabout way |
| 抜け出す | ぬけだす | nukedasu | to slip out; to sneak away; to excel |
| スラックス | — | surakkusu | slacks |
| 受け継ぐ | うけつぐ | uketsugu | to inherit; to succeed; to take over |
| 製法 | せいほう | seihō | manufacturing method; recipe; formula |
| 誤差 | ごさ | gosa | error |
| 私用 | しよう | shiyō | personal use; private business |
| 仕上がり | しあがり | shiagari | finish; end; completion |
| 三 | み | mi | (num) three |
| 貴い | たっとい | tattoi | precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred |
| 於いて | おいて | oite | at; in; on |
| 情勢 | じょうせい | jōsei | state of things; condition; situation |
| 分 | ふん | fun | minute |
| 沼 | ぬま | numa | swamp; bog; pond; lake |
| 基金 | ききん | kikin | fund; foundation |
| 捻子 | ねじ | neji | screw; helix; spiral |
| 手配 | てはい | tehai | arrangement; search (by police) |
| 応急 | おうきゅう | ōkyū | emergency |
| 法案 | ほうあん | hōan | bill (law) |
| 畳 | じょう | jō | #NAME? |
| 陰気 | いんき | inki | gloom; melancholy |
| 全滅 | ぜんめつ | zenmetsu | annihilation |
| 対立 | たいりつ | tairitsu | confrontation; opposition; antagonism |
| 期日 | きじつ | kijitsu | fixed date; settlement date |
| 其れでは | それでは | soredeha | in that situation; well then ... |
| 著名 | ちょめい | chomei | well-known; noted; celebrated |
| メッセージ | — | messēji | message |
| 説く | とく | toku | to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade |
| 受かる | うかる | ukaru | to pass (examination) |
| 聴講 | ちょうこう | chōkō | lecture attendance; auditing |
| 値する | あたいする | ataisuru | to be worth; to deserve; to merit |
| 会談 | かいだん | kaidan | conversation; conference; discussion; interview |
| 荒廃 | こうはい | kōhai | ruin |
| 片思い | かたおもい | kataomoi | unrequited love |
| 甘い | うまい | umai | delicious |
| 従って | したがって | shitagatte | therefore; consequently; in accordance with |
| 蹴飛ばす | けとばす | ketobasu | to kick away; to kick off; to kick (someone); to refuse; to reject |
| 盛装 | せいそう | seisō | be dressed up; wear rich clothes |
| 規範 | きはん | kihan | model; standard; pattern; norm; criterion; example |
| 様式 | ようしき | yōshiki | style; form; pattern |
| 心情 | しんじょう | shinjō | mentality |
| 根拠 | こんきょ | konkyo | basis; foundation |
| 法学 | ほうがく | hōgaku | law; jurisprudence |
| 止まる | とどまる | todomaru | to be limited to |
| 姉妹 | きょうだい | kyōdai | sisters |
| 削減 | さくげん | sakugen | cut; reduction; curtailment |
| 売り出し | うりだし | uridashi | (bargain) sale |
| 懸賞 | けんしょう | kenshō | offering prizes; winning; reward |
| 返済 | へんさい | hensai | repayment |
| 過疎 | かそ | kaso | depopulation |
| 切り替える | きりかえる | kirikaeru | to change; to exchange; to convert; to renew; to throw a switch; to replace; to switch over |
| 仕舞 | しまい | shimai | end; termination; informal (Noh play) |
| 完璧 | かんぺき | kanpeki | perfection; completeness; flawless |
| 地方 | じかた | jikata | area; locality; district; region; the coast |
| 協調 | きょうちょう | kyōchō | co-operation; conciliation; harmony; firm (market) tone |
| 逃亡 | とうぼう | tōbō | escape |
| 転校 | てんこう | tenkō | change schools |
| 集まる | あつまる | atsumaru | to gather; to collect; to assemble |
| 何となく | なんとなく | nantonaku | somehow or other; for some reason or another |
| 登録 | とうろく | tōroku | registration; register; entry; record |
| 藍褸 | ぼろ | boro | rag; scrap; tattered clothes; fault (esp. in a pretense); defect; run-down or junky |
| 行い | おこない | okonai | deed; conduct; behavior; action; asceticism |
| 的 | てき | teki | -like; typical |
| 給食 | きゅうしょく | kyūshoku | school lunch; providing a meal |
| 着工 | ちゃっこう | chakkō | start of (construction) work |
| ふんだん | — | fundan | plentiful; abundant; lavish |
| シナリオ | — | shinario | scenario |
| コメント | — | komento | comment |
| 了承 | りょうしょう | ryōshō | acknowledgement; understanding (e.g. please be understanding of the mess during our renovation) |
| カムバック | — | kamubakku | comeback |
| 修行 | しゅうぎょう | shūgyō | pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; ascetic practice; discipline |
| ランプ | — | ranpu | lamp; ramp; headlight; light |
| ブーム | — | būmu | boom |
| 凝る | こごる | kogoru | to congeal; to freeze |
| 味わい | あじわい | ajiwai | flavour; meaning; significance |
| 来場 | らいじょう | raijō | attendance |
| フィルター | — | firutā | (camera) filter |
| 一切 | いっさい | issai | all; everything; without exception; the whole; entirely; absolutely |
| 従業員 | じゅうぎょういん | jūgyōin | employee; worker |
| 享受 | きょうじゅ | kyōju | reception; acceptance; enjoyment; being given |
| 設立 | せつりつ | setsuritsu | establishment; foundation; institution |
| 座標 | ざひょう | zahyō | coordinate(s) |
| 掻き回す | かきまわす | kakimawasu | to stir up; to churn; to ransack; to disturb |
| バッジ | — | bajji | badge |
| 明後日 | あさって | asatte | day after tomorrow |
| 背後 | はいご | haigo | back; rear |
| 野外 | やがい | yagai | fields; outskirts; open air; suburbs |
| 階級 | かいきゅう | kaikyū | class; rank; grade |
| 侵略 | しんりゃく | shinryaku | aggression; invasion; raid |
| 救い | すくい | sukui | help; aid; relief |
| 回覧 | かいらん | kairan | circulation |
| 如何 | いかが | ikaga | how; in what way |
| 徐々 | そろそろ | sorosoro | gradually; steadily; quietly; slowly; soon |
| 気触れる | かぶれる | kabureru | to react to; to be influenced by; to go overboard for |
| 物置き | ものおき | monōki | storeroom |
| 古代 | こだい | kodai | ancient times |
| 込める | こめる | komeru | to include; to put into |
| 指揮 | しき | shiki | command; direction |
| 交互 | こうご | kōgo | mutual; reciprocal; alternate |
| 区切り | くぎり | kugiri | an end; a stop; punctuation |
| 移行 | いこう | ikō | switching over to |
| 未熟 | みじゅく | mijuku | inexperience; unripeness; raw; unskilled; immature; inexperienced |
| 計器 | けいき | keiki | meter; gauge |
| 出世 | しゅっせ | shusse | promotion; successful career; eminence |
| 降伏 | こうふく | kōfuku | capitulation; surrender; submission |
| 仰ぐ | あおぐ | aogu | to look up (to); to respect; to depend on; to ask for; to seek; to revere; to drink; to take |
| 法廷 | ほうてい | hōtei | courtroom |
| 擽ぐったい | くすぐったい | kusuguttai | ticklish |
| 乃至 | ないし | naishi | from...to; between...and; or |
| 復活 | ふっかつ | fukkatsu | revival (e.g. musical); restoration |
| 労る | いたわる | itawaru | to pity; to sympathize with; to console; to care for; to be kind to |
| あっさり | — | assari | easily; readily; quickly |
| 代 | しろ | shiro | price; materials; substitution |
| 天皇 | すめらぎ | sumeragi | Emperor of Japan |
| 申し出る | もうしでる | mōshideru | to report to; to tell; to suggest; to submit; to request; to make an offer; to come forward with informati |
| トラブル | — | toraburu | trouble (sometimes used as a verb) |
| 優美 | ゆうび | yūbi | grace; refinement; elegance |
| 所持 | しょじ | shoji | possession; owning |
| 運用 | うんよう | un'yō | making use of; application; investment; practical use |
| 鼠 | ねず | nezu | 1. mouse; rat; 2. dark gray; slate color |
| ブルー | — | burū | blue |
| 冒頭 | ぼうとう | bōtō | beginning; start; outset |
| お目出度う | おめでとう | omedetō | (ateji) (int) (uk) Congratulations!; an auspicious occasion! |
| 類 | たぐい | tagui | a kind |
| 審判 | しんばん | shinban | refereeing; trial; judgement; umpire; referee |
| 統治 | とうじ | tōji | rule; reign; government; governing |
| 両極 | りょうきょく | ryōkyoku | both extremities; north and south poles; positive and negative poles |
| 夜更かし | よふかし | yofukashi | staying up late; keeping late hours; sitting up late at night; nighthawk |
| 日の丸 | ひのまる | hinomaru | the Japanese flag |
| 茹でる | ゆでる | yuderu | to boil |
| 共 | きょう | kyō | both; neither (neg); all; and; as well as; including; with; together with; plural ending |
| 交える | まじえる | majieru | to mix; to converse with; to cross (swords) |
| 民宿 | みんしゅく | minshuku | private home providing lodging for travelers |
| 機構 | きこう | kikō | mechanism; organization |
| 気障 | きざ | kiza | affectation; conceit; snobbery |
| 無知 | むち | muchi | ignorance |
| 心強い | こころづよい | kokorozuyoi | heartening; reassuring |
| 休める | やすめる | yasumeru | to rest; to suspend; to give relief |
| 丈夫 | じょうふ | jōfu | 1. hero; gentleman; warrior; manly person; 2. good health; robustness; strong; solid; durable |
| 自主 | じしゅ | jishu | independence; autonomy |
| 一目 | いちもく | ichimoku | a glance; a look; a glimpse |
| 戸締り | とじまり | tojimari | closing up; fastening the doors |
| 態勢 | たいせい | taisei | attitude; conditions; preparations |
| 大げさ | おおげさ | ōgesa | grandiose; exaggerated |
| 区画 | くかく | kukaku | division; section; compartment; boundary; area; block |
| ジーパン | — | jīpan | jeans (lit: jeans pants); dungarees |
| 身体 | からだ | karada | the body |
| 暴風 | ぼうふう | bōfū | storm; windstorm; gale |
| 卑しい | いやしい | iyashii | greedy; vulgar; shabby; humble; base; mean; vile |
| 革新 | かくしん | kakushin | reform; innovation |
| 遂げる | とげる | togeru | to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out |
| 融通 | ゆうずう | yūzū | lending (money); accommodation; adaptability; versatility; finance |
| 冴える | さえる | saeru | to be clear; to be serene; to be cold; to be skillful |
| 乗り込む | のりこむ | norikomu | to board; to embark on; to get into (a car); to ship (passengers); to man (a ship); to help (someone) int |
| 拵える | こしらえる | koshiraeru | to make; to manufacture |
| 始めまして | はじめまして | hajimemashite | How do you do?; I am glad to meet you |
| 理論 | りろん | riron | theory |
| 無線 | むせん | musen | wireless; radio |
| 避難 | ひなん | hinan | taking refuge; finding shelter |
| 快い | こころよい | kokoroyoi | pleasant; agreeable |
| 異見 | いけん | iken | different opinion; objection |
| 果てる | はてる | hateru | to end; to be finished; to be exhausted; to die; to perish |
| 大空 | おおぞら | ōzora | heaven; firmament; the sky |
| フロント | — | furonto | front |
| 調理 | ちょうり | chōri | cooking |
| 態と | わざと | wazato | on purpose |
| 海峡 | かいきょう | kaikyō | channel |
| 病 | やまい | yamai | illness; disease |
| 蓋 | がい | gai | cover; lid; cap |
| 生理 | せいり | seiri | physiology; menses |
| 股 | また | mata | groin; crotch; thigh |
| 願書 | がんしょ | gansho | written application or petition |
| 一連 | いちれん | ichiren | a series; a chain; a ream (of paper) |
| 月並み | つきなみ | tsukinami | every month; common |
| 中腹 | ちゅうっぱら | chūppara | irritated; offended |
| 昼間 | ちゅうかん | chūkan | daytime; during the day |
| 出直し | でなおし | denaoshi | adjustment; touch up |
| 左利き | ひだりきき | hidarikiki | left-handedness; sake drinker; left-hander |
| 親善 | しんぜん | shinzen | friendship |
| 健やか | すこやか | sukoyaka | vigorous; healthy; sound |
| 分母 | ぶんぼ | bunbo | denominator |
| 腿 | もも | momo | thigh; femur |
| ソース | — | sōsu | source |
| 枠 | わく | waku | frame; slide |
| 摘む | つまむ | tsumamu | to pinch; to hold; to pick up |
| 僅 | きん | kin | a little; small quantity |
| 認識 | にんしき | ninshiki | recognition; cognizance |
| 沈める | しずめる | shizumeru | to sink; to submerge |
| 詰らない | つまらない | tsumaranai | insignificant; boring; trifling |
| 実費 | じっぴ | jippi | actual expense; cost price |
| 鼾 | いびき | ibiki | snoring |
| アクセル | — | akuseru | accelerator |
| 何時か | いつか | itsuka | sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course; in time |
| 埋蔵 | まいぞう | maizō | buried property; treasure trove |
| 公開 | こうかい | kōkai | presenting to the public |
| 融資 | ゆうし | yūshi | financing; loan |
| 並びに | ならびに | narabini | and |
| 助 | じょ | jo | help; rescue; assistant |
| 刊行 | かんこう | kankō | publication; issue |
| 呟く | つぶやく | tsubuyaku | to mutter; to murmur |
| 打ち込む | うちこむ | uchikomu | to drive in (e.g. nail stake); to devote oneself to; to shoot into; to smash; to throw into; to cast int |
| 欲深い | よくふかい | yokufukai | greedy |
| 版 | はん | han | edition |
| 新築 | しんちく | shinchiku | new building; new construction |
| がっちり | — | gatchiri | solidly built; tightly; shrewd; calculating |
| 福祉 | ふくし | fukushi | welfare; well-being |
| 碁盤 | ごばん | goban | Go board |
| 配置 | はいち | haichi | arrangement (of resources); disposition |
| 恰度 | ちょうど | chōdo | just; right; exactly |
| 革命 | かくめい | kakumei | revolution |
| ポンプ | — | ponpu | pump |
| 下心 | したごころ | shitagokoro | secret intention; motive |
| 清算 | せいさん | seisan | liquidation; settlement |
| 手法 | しゅほう | shuhō | technique |
| 緩む | ゆるむ | yurumu | to become loose; to slacken |
| 下地 | したじ | shitaji | groundwork; foundation; inclination; aptitude; elementary knowledge of; grounding in; prearrangement; spade |
| 長編 | ちょうへん | chōhen | long (e.g. novel film) |
| どうにか | — | dōnika | in some way or other; one way or another |
| 知性 | ちせい | chisei | intelligence |
| 弱める | よわめる | yowameru | to weaken |
| 閉鎖 | へいさ | heisa | closing; closure; shutdown; lockout; unsociable |
| 何とも | なんとも | nantomo | nothing (with neg. verb); quite; not a bit |
| 逃れる | のがれる | nogareru | to escape |
| 百科辞典 | ひゃっかじてん | hyakkajiten | encyclopedia |
| タイトル | — | taitoru | title |
| 創立 | そうりつ | sōritsu | establishment; founding; organization |
| 合議 | ごうぎ | gōgi | consultation; conference |
| 捕虜 | ほりょ | horyo | prisoner (of war) |
| 吊り革 | つりかわ | tsurikawa | strap |
| 輪 | りん | rin | counter for wheels and flowers |
| 月謝 | げっしゃ | gessha | monthly tuition fee |
| 倍率 | ばいりつ | bairitsu | diameter; magnification |
| 乏しい | とぼしい | toboshii | meagre; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; scanty; poor |
| 光熱費 | こうねつひ | kōnetsuhi | cost of fuel and light |
| 有益 | ゆうえき | yūeki | beneficial; profitable |
| 感度 | かんど | kando | sensitivity; severity (quake) |
| 蓮 | はす | hasu | lotus |
| 連休 | れんきゅう | renkyū | consecutive holidays |
| 合唱 | がっしょう | gasshō | chorus; singing in a chorus |
| 階層 | かいそう | kaisō | class; level; stratum; hierarchy |
| 展望 | てんぼう | tenbō | view; outlook; prospect |
| 峰 | みね | mine | peak; ridge |
| 達者 | たっしゃ | tassha | skillful; in good health |
| 恋する | こいする | koisuru | to fall in love with; to love |
| 来る | きたる | kitaru | to come; to arrive; to be due to; to be next; to be forthcoming |
| 合意 | ごうい | gōi | agreement; consent; mutual understanding |
| 栄える | さかえる | sakaeru | to prosper; to flourish |
| 長大 | ちょうだい | chōdai | very long; great length |
| 迫害 | はくがい | hakugai | persecution |
| 賠償 | ばいしょう | baishō | reparations; indemnity; compensation |
| ご座います | ございます | gozaimasu | to be (polite); to exist |
| 距離 | きょり | kyori | distance; range |
| 統率 | とうそつ | tōsotsu | command; lead; generalship; leadership |
| 補助 | ほじょ | hojo | assistance; support; aid; auxiliary |
| 荷造り | にづくり | nizukuri | packing; baling; crating |
| 採算 | さいさん | saisan | profit |
| 恐らく | おそらく | osoraku | perhaps |
| 気兼ね | きがね | kigane | hesitance; diffidence; feeling constraint; fear of troubling someone; having scruples about doing someth |
| 弾む | はずむ | hazumu | to spring; to bound; to bounce; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to get lively; to treat oneself to; to |
| 専ら | もっぱら | moppara | wholly; solely; entirely |
| 掲げる | かかげる | kakageru | to publish; to print; to carry (an article); to put up; to hang out; to hoist; to fly (a sail); to float (a |
| ずらっと | — | zuratto | in a line; in a row |
| 伐 | ばつ | batsu | strike; attack; punish |
| 中指 | ちゅうし | chūshi | middle finger |
| 然うして | そうして | sōshite | and; like that |
| 保つ | たもつ | tamotsu | to keep; to preserve; to hold; to retain; to maintain; to support; to sustain; to last; to endure; to keep we |
| 三味線 | さみせん | samisen | three-stringed Japanese guitar; shamisen |
| 細やか | こまやか | komayaka | friendly |
| 雑木 | ざつぼく | zatsuboku | various kinds of small trees; assorted trees |
| 宙返り | ちゅうがえり | chūgaeri | somersault; looping-the-loop |
| 兼ねて | かねて | kanete | simultaneously |
| キャリア | — | kyaria | career; career government employee |
| 先代 | せんだい | sendai | family predecessor; previous age; previous generation |
| 付き | つき | tsuki | attached to; impression; sociality; appearance; furnished with; under; to |
| 成年 | せいねん | seinen | majority; adult age |
| 本館 | ほんかん | honkan | main building |
| 訴訟 | そしょう | soshō | litigation; lawsuit |
| 応募 | おうぼ | ōbo | subscription; application |
| 跨ぐ | またぐ | matagu | to straddle |
| オンライン | — | onrain | on-line |
| 封 | ふう | fū | seal |
| 強いて | しいて | shiite | by force |
| 無駄遣い | むだづかい | mudazukai | waste money on; squander money on; flog a dead horse |
| 所定 | しょてい | shotei | fixed; prescribed |
| 真珠 | しんじゅ | shinju | pearl |
| 浪費 | ろうひ | rōhi | waste; extravagance |
| 丈 | たけ | take | height; stature; length; measure; all (one has) |
| 係り | かかり | kakari | official; duty; person in charge |
| 仏 | ふつ | futsu | French |
| 了 | りょう | ryō | finish; completion; understanding |
| 芝 | しば | shiba | lawn; sod; turf |
| 派 | は | ha | clique; faction; school |
| 情け深い | なさけぶかい | nasakebukai | tender-hearted; compassionate |
| 人体 | じんたい | jintai | human body |
| 桐 | きり | kiri | paulownia tree |
| 突破 | とっぱ | toppa | breaking through; breakthrough; penetration |
| 其れに | それに | soreni | besides; moreover |
| くっ付く | くっつく | kuttsuku | to adhere to; to keep close to |
| 几帳面 | きちょうめん | kichōmen | methodical; punctual; steady |
| 保護 | ほご | hogo | care; protection; shelter; guardianship; favor; patronage |
| 占領 | せんりょう | senryō | occupation; capture; possession; have a room to oneself |
| 痒い | かゆい | kayui | itchy; itching |
| 日取り | ひどり | hidori | fixed date; appointed day |
| 歳 | さい | sai | #NAME? |
| 値引き | ねびき | nebiki | price reduction; discount |
| 合致 | がっち | gatchi | agreement; concurrence; conforming to |
| 到達 | とうたつ | tōtatsu | reaching; attaining; arrival |
| 促進 | そくしん | sokushin | promotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on |
| 本質 | ほんしつ | honshitsu | essence; true nature; reality |
| 生まれつき | うまれつき | umaretsuki | by nature; by birth; native |
| 政策 | せいさく | seisaku | political measures; policy |
| 逆上る | さかのぼる | sakanoboru | to go back; to go upstream; to make retroactive |
| 長々 | ながなが | naganaga | long; drawn-out; very long |
| 建前 | たてまえ | tatemae | face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts) |
| 上手 | うわて | uwate | 1. upper part; upper stream; left side (of a stage); 2. skillful (only in comparisons); dexterity (on |
| 参照 | さんしょう | sanshō | reference; consultation; consultation |
| どうぞ宜しく | どうぞよろしく | dōzoyoroshiku | pleased to meet you |
| 許容 | きょよう | kyoyō | permission; pardon |
| 共産 | きょうさん | kyōsan | communism |
| 疾っくに | とっくに | tokkuni | long ago; already; a long time ago |
| 丸々 | まるまる | marumaru | completely |
| 比重 | ひじゅう | hijū | specific gravity |
| 税務署 | ぜいむしょ | zeimusho | tax office |
| 潜る | くぐる | kuguru | 1. to drive; to pass through; 2. to evade; to hide; 3. to dive (into or under water); to go undergro |
| 再 | さい | sai | re-; again; repeated |
| 要請 | ようせい | yōsei | claim; demand; request; application |
| 兵器 | へいき | heiki | arms; weapons; ordinance |
| 対話 | たいわ | taiwa | interactive; interaction; conversation; dialogue |
| 目付き | めつき | metsuki | look; expression of the eyes; eyes |
| 派遣 | はけん | haken | dispatch; send |
| 依存 | いそん | ison | dependence; dependent; reliance |
| 清純 | せいじゅん | seijun | purity; innocence |
| いやに | — | iyani | awfully; terribly |
| 経路 | けいろ | keiro | course; route; channel |
| 丸ごと | まるごと | marugoto | in its entirety; whole; wholly |
| 遺跡 | いせき | iseki | historic ruins (remains relics) |
| 充実 | じゅうじつ | jūjitsu | fullness; completion; perfection; substantiality; enrichment |
| 老ける | ふける | fukeru | to age |
| 相応 | そうおう | sōō | suitability; fitness |
| 恥じる | はじる | hajiru | to feel ashamed |
| ねじ回し | ねじまわし | nejimawashi | screwdriver |
| 戦力 | せんりょく | senryoku | war potential |
| 切開 | せっかい | sekkai | clearing (land); opening up; cutting through |
| 上空 | じょうくう | jōkū | sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air |
| 面目 | めんぼく | menboku | face; honour; reputation; prestige; dignity; credit |
| 原油 | げんゆ | gen'yu | crude oil |
| 自立 | じりつ | jiritsu | independence; self-reliance |
| 麻痺 | まひ | mahi | paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor |
| 近郊 | きんこう | kinkō | suburbs; outskirts |
| 映える | はえる | haeru | to shine; to look attractive; to look pretty |
| 家出 | いえで | iede | running away from home; leaving home |
| 街道 | かいどう | kaidō | highway |
| 祝賀 | しゅくが | shukuga | celebration; congratulations |
| 貧困 | ひんこん | hinkon | poverty; lack |
| 押し込む | おしこむ | oshikomu | to push into; to crowd into |
| 眼科 | がんか | ganka | ophthalmology |
| 見込み | みこみ | mikomi | hope; prospects; expectation |
| 途絶える | とだえる | todaeru | to stop; to cease; to come to an end |
| 漢語 | かんご | kango | Chinese word; Sino-Japanese word |
| 門 | かど | kado | gate |
| 扶養 | ふよう | fuyō | support; maintenance |
| 堪らない | たまらない | tamaranai | intolerable; unbearable; unendurable |
| 出切る | できる | dekiru | to be out of; to have no more at hand |
| 連盟 | れんめい | renmei | league; union; alliance |
| 象徴 | しょうちょう | shōchō | symbol |
| 携わる | たずさわる | tazusawaru | to participate; to take part |
| 抓る | つねる | tsuneru | to pinch |
| 購入 | こうにゅう | kōnyū | purchase; buy |
| 貴族 | きぞく | kizoku | noble; aristocrat |
| 治まる | おさまる | osamaru | to be at peace; to clamp down; to lessen (storm terror anger) |
| 助け | たすけ | tasuke | assistance |
| 多数決 | たすうけつ | tasūketsu | majority rule |
| 一挙に | いっきょに | ikkyoni | at a stroke; with a single swoop |
| 大人しい | おとなしい | otonashii | obedient; docile; quiet |
| 哉 | や | ya | question mark |
| 跨がる | またがる | matagaru | to extend over or into; to straddle |
| 合併 | がっぺい | gappei | combination; union; amalgamation; consolidation; merger; coalition; fusion; annexation; affiliation; incorpor |
| 仕掛け | しかけ | shikake | device; trick; mechanism; gadget; (small) scale; half finished; commencement; set up; challenge |
| 寄り掛かる | よりかかる | yorikakaru | to lean against; to recline on; to lean on; to rely on |
| 浮力 | ふりょく | furyoku | buoyancy; floating power |
| 冷やかす | ひやかす | hiyakasu | to banter; to make fun of; to jeer at; to cool; to refrigerate |
| ぶかぶか | — | bukabuka | too big; baggy |
| 一律 | いちりつ | ichiritsu | evenness; uniformity; monotony; equality |
| 負債 | ふさい | fusai | debt; liabilities |
| 辺り | ほとり | hotori | (in the) neighbourhood; vicinity; nearby |
| 汚らわしい | けがらわしい | kegarawashii | filthy; unfair |
| 痛む | いたむ | itamu | to hurt; to feel a pain; to be injured |
| 赴く | おもむく | omomuku | to go; to proceed; to repair to; to become |
| 議事堂 | ぎじどう | gijidō | Diet building |
| 展示 | てんじ | tenji | exhibition; display |
| 何時の間にか | いつのまにか | itsunomanika | before one knows; unnoticed; unawares |
| 収益 | しゅうえき | shūeki | earnings; proceeds; returns |
| 番目 | ばんめ | banme | cardinal number suffix |
| 反発 | はんぱつ | hanpatsu | repelling; rebound; recover; oppose |
| 好い | よい | yoi | good |
| ポイント | — | pointo | point |
| 知り合い | しりあい | shiriai | acquaintance |
| 不吉 | ふきつ | fukitsu | ominous; sinister; bad luck; ill omen; inauspiciousness |
| 整列 | せいれつ | seiretsu | stand in a row; form a line |
| 拝借 | はいしゃく | haishaku | borrowing |
| 視覚 | しかく | shikaku | sense of sight; vision |
| 名札 | なふだ | nafuda | name plate; name tag |
| 馴らす | ならす | narasu | to domesticate; to tame |
| サボる | — | saboru | to be truant; to be idle; to sabotage by slowness |
| 使用人 | しようにん | shiyōnin | employee; servant |
| 仮令 | たとえ | tatoe | example; even if; if; though; although |
| 富む | とむ | tomu | to be rich; to become rich |
| 好調 | こうちょう | kōchō | favourable; promising; satisfactory; in good shape |
| 萎む | しぼむ | shibomu | to wither; to fade (away); to shrivel; to wilt |
| 転じる | てんじる | tenjiru | to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract |
| 割 | かつ | katsu | divide; cut; halve; separate; split; rip; break; crack; smash; dilute |
| 敵 | かたき | kataki | enemy; rival |
| 分離 | ぶんり | bunri | separation; detachment; segregation; isolation |
| 衰える | おとろえる | otoroeru | to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither; to waste away |
| 懲りる | こりる | koriru | to learn by experience; to be disgusted with |
| 真実 | さな | sana | truth; reality |
| 指令 | しれい | shirei | orders; instructions; directive |
| 帰京 | ききょう | kikyō | returning to Tokyo |
| 感慨 | かんがい | kangai | strong feelings; deep emotion |
| 少なくとも | すくなくとも | sukunakutomo | at least |
| 割引き | わりびき | waribiki | discount; reduction; rebate; tenths discounted |
| タイヤ | — | taiya | tire; tyre |
| 総合 | そうごう | sōgō | synthesis; coordination; putting together; integration; composite |
| 破損 | はそん | hason | damage |
| 趣 | おもむき | omomuki | meaning; tenor; gist; effect; appearance; taste; grace; charm; refinement |
| 雌 | めす | mesu | female (animal) |
| 御免なさい | ごめんなさい | gomennasai | I beg your pardon; excuse me |
| 原形 | げんけい | genkei | original form; base form |
| 郷里 | きょうり | kyōri | birth-place; home town |
| お手上げ | おてあげ | oteage | all over; given in; given up hope; bring to knees |
| 泊 | はく | haku | counter for nights of a stay |
| 立法 | りっぽう | rippō | legislation; lawmaking |
| 申告 | しんこく | shinkoku | report; statement; filing a return; notification |
| 濠 | ごう | gō | moat |
| 募金 | ぼきん | bokin | fund-raising; collection of funds |
| 説得 | せっとく | settoku | persuasion |
| 大概 | たいがい | taigai | in general; mainly |
| 畜生 | ちくしょう | chikushō | beast; brute; damn |
| お早う | おはよう | ohayō | Good morning |
| 悪者 | わるもの | warumono | bad fellow; rascal; ruffian; scoundrel |
| 繁栄 | はんえい | han'ei | prospering; prosperity; thriving; flourishing |
| 飽和 | ほうわ | hōwa | saturation |
| 漏る | もる | moru | to leak; to run out |
| ゼリー | — | zerī | 1. jelly; 2. Jerry |
| 脚色 | きゃくしょく | kyakushoku | dramatization (e.g. film) |
| 叶う | かなう | kanau | to come true (wish) |
| 転換 | てんかん | tenkan | convert; divert |
| 貯蓄 | ちょちく | chochiku | savings |
| 系 | けい | kei | system; lineage; group |
| 孤児 | こじ | koji | orphan |
| 前 | せん | sen | before |
| 社宅 | しゃたく | shataku | company owned house |
| 母校 | ぼこう | bokō | alma mater |
| 短歌 | たんか | tanka | tanka; 31-syllable Japanese poem |
| アイデア | — | aidea | idea |
| エレガント | — | ereganto | elegant |
| 退ける | しりぞける | shirizokeru | to repel; to drive away |
| 形態 | けいたい | keitai | form; shape; figure |
| 特許 | とっきょ | tokkyo | special permission; patent |
| 怯える | おびえる | obieru | to become frightened; to have a nightmare |
| 動力 | どうりょく | dōryoku | power; motive power; dynamic force |
| 素朴 | そぼく | soboku | simplicity; artlessness; naivete |
| 採用 | さいよう | saiyō | use; adopt |
| 編 | へん | hen | compilation; editing; completed poem; book; part of book |
| 口頭 | こうとう | kōtō | oral |
| 電線 | でんせん | densen | electric line |
| 保育 | ほいく | hoiku | nursing; nurturing; rearing; lactation; suckling |
| 様 | さま | sama | Mr. or Mrs.; manner; kind; appearance |
| 成る丈 | なるたけ | narutake | as much as possible; if possible |
| 落とす | おとす | otosu | to drop; to lose; to let fall |
| メディア | — | media | media |
| えい | — | ei | ray (fish) |
| 給う | たまう | tamau | to receive; to grant |
| 湿気る | しける | shikeru | to be damp; to be moist |
| 共感 | きょうかん | kyōkan | sympathy; response |
| 掬う | すくう | sukū | to scoop; to ladle out |
| ペア | — | pea | pair; pear |
| ストレス | — | sutoresu | stress |
| 遣い | つかい | tsukai | mission; simple task; doing |
| 吃逆 | しゃっくり | shakkuri | hiccough; hiccup |
| 聞き取り | ききとり | kikitori | listening comprehension |
| 朗読 | ろうどく | rōdoku | reading aloud; recitation |
| ぞんざい | — | zonzai | rude; careless; slovenly |
| 休戦 | きゅうせん | kyūsen | truce; armistice |
| 転転 | てんてん | tenten | rolling about; moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly |
| 水洗 | すいせん | suisen | flushing |
| 成果 | せいか | seika | results; fruits |
| 寄与 | きよ | kiyo | contribution; service |
| 囀る | さえずる | saezuru | to sing; to chirp; to twitter |
| 黒字 | くろじ | kuroji | balance (figure) in the black |
| 詰まり | つまり | tsumari | in short; in brief; in other words; that is to say; in the long run; after all; blockade; stuffing; ultimate |
| 準ずる | じゅんずる | junzuru | to apply correspondingly; to correspond to; to be proportionate to; to conform to |
| 移住 | いじゅう | ijū | migration; immigration |
| 世帯 | せたい | setai | household |
| 吹奏 | すいそう | suisō | playing wind instruments |
| 戦闘 | せんとう | sentō | battle; fight; combat |
| 奴 | やっこ | yakko | servant; fellow |
| 情緒 | じょうしょ | jōsho | emotion; feeling |
| 類推 | るいすい | ruisui | analogy |
| 良心 | りょうしん | ryōshin | conscience |
| 危害 | きがい | kigai | injury; harm; danger |
| 甥 | おい | oi | nephew |
| 果たして | はたして | hatashite | as was expected; really |
| 唸る | うなる | unaru | to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to growl; to hum; to buzz; to sough |
| 書評 | しょひょう | shohyō | book review |
| 恵み | めぐみ | megumi | blessing |
| 首輪 | くびわ | kubiwa | necklace; choker |
| 決意 | けつい | ketsui | decision; determination |
| ワット | — | watto | watt |
| 度々 | たびたび | tabitabi | often; repeatedly; frequently |
| 対辺 | たいへん | taihen | (geometrical) opposite side |
| 何時でも | いつでも | itsudemo | (at) any time; always; at all times; never (neg); whenever |
| 依 | い | i | depending on |
| レンタカー | — | rentakā | hire car (lit: rent-a-car) |
| 酸っぱい | すっぱい | suppai | sour; acid |
| 家来 | けらい | kerai | retainer; retinue; servant |
| 推進 | すいしん | suishin | propulsion; driving force |
| 中立 | ちゅうりつ | chūritsu | neutrality |
| 何卒 | どうぞ | dōzo | please; kindly; by all means |
| オーケー | — | ōkē | OK |
| 自首 | じしゅ | jishu | surrender; give oneself up |
| 演ずる | えんずる | enzuru | to perform; to play |
| 何て | なんて | nante | how...!; what...! |
| 反り | そり | sori | warp; curvature; curve; arch |
| 拒絶 | きょぜつ | kyozetsu | refusal; rejection |
| 付き合う | つきあう | tsukiau | to associate with; to keep company with; to get on with |
| 進出 | しんしゅつ | shinshutsu | advance; step forward |
| 残金 | ざんきん | zankin | remaining money |
| 怒鳴る | どなる | donaru | to shout; to yell |
| 事項 | じこう | jikō | matter; item; facts |
| ひょっと | — | hyotto | possibly; accidentally |
| 憧れ | あこがれ | akogare | yearning; longing; aspiration |
| 源 | みなもと | minamoto | source; origin |
| 取り扱う | とりあつかう | toriatsukau | to treat; to handle; to deal in |
| 身振り | みぶり | miburi | gesture |
| 死 | し | shi | death; decease |
| 手掛かり | てがかり | tegakari | contact; trail; scent; on hand; hand hold; clue; key |
| 殿様 | とのさま | tonosama | feudal lord |
| 優先 | ゆうせん | yūsen | preference; priority |
| 欺く | あざむく | azamuku | to deceive |
| 兼業 | けんぎょう | kengyō | side line; second business |
| 携帯 | けいたい | keitai | carrying something |
| 下らない | くだらない | kudaranai | good-for-nothing; stupid; trivial; worthless |
| 青春 | せいしゅん | seishun | youth; springtime of life; adolescent |
| 着席 | ちゃくせき | chakuseki | sit down; seat |
| レッスン | — | ressun | lesson |
| 情 | じょう | jō | feelings; emotion; passion |
| 事によると | ことによると | kotoniyoruto | depending on the circumstances |
| 超 | ちょう | chō | super-; ultra-; hyper- |
| 顎 | あご | ago | chin |
| 勇敢 | ゆうかん | yūkan | bravery; heroism; gallantry |
| 不山戯る | ふざける | fuzakeru | to romp; to gambol; to frolic; to joke; to make fun of; to flirt |
| すばしこい | — | subashikoi | nimble; smart; quick |
| 禁物 | きんもつ | kinmotsu | taboo; forbidden thing |
| データ | — | dēta | data |
| 原爆 | げんばく | genbaku | atomic bomb |
| しいんと | — | shiinto | silent (as the grave); (deathly) quiet |
| グラフ | — | gurafu | graph |
| 空ろ | うつろ | utsuro | blank; cavity; hollow; empty (space) |
| 誠 | まこと | makoto | truth; faith; fidelity; sincerity; trust; confidence; reliance; devotion |
| 此れ等 | これら | korera | these |
| 現地 | げんち | genchi | actual place; local |
| 煙る | けむる | kemuru | to smoke (e.g. fire) |
| 老衰 | ろうすい | rōsui | senility; senile decay |
| 燃料 | ねんりょう | nenryō | fuel |
| 弱 | じゃく | jaku | weakness; the weak; little less then |
| 重 | え | e | -fold; -ply |
| 票 | ひょう | hyō | label; ballot; ticket; sign |
| 貧乏 | びんぼう | binbō | poverty; destitute; poor |
| 産物 | さんぶつ | sanbutsu | product; result; fruit |
| 滅茶苦茶 | めちゃくちゃ | mechakucha | absurd; unreasonable; excessive; messed up; spoiled; wreaked |
| ずれる | — | zureru | to slide; to slip off |
| 軍事 | ぐんじ | gunji | military affairs |
| 原 | げん | gen | original; primitive; primary; fundamental; raw |
| 襟 | えり | eri | neck; collar; lapel; neckband |
| お喋り | おしゃべり | oshaberi | chattering; talk; idle talk; chat; chitchat; gossip; chatty; talkative; chatterbox; blabbermouth |
| 呉れ呉れも | くれぐれも | kureguremo | repeatedly; sincerely; earnestly |
| 臨む | のぞむ | nozomu | to look out on; to face; to deal with; to attend (function) |
| 打ち切る | うちきる | uchikiru | to stop; to abort; to discontinue; to close |
| 指示 | しじ | shiji | indication; instruction; directions |
| 化ける | ばける | bakeru | to appear in disguise; to take the form of; to change for the worse |
| 機 | はた | hata | loom |
| なんだかんだ | — | nandakanda | something or other |
| 尉 | じょう | jō | jailer; old man; rank; company officer |
| 学説 | がくせつ | gakusetsu | theory |
| 富 | とみ | tomi | wealth; fortune |
| 上下 | うえした | ueshita | high and low; up and down; unloading and loading; praising and blaming |
| 図々しい | ずうずうしい | zūzūshii | impudent; shameless |
| 妥協 | だきょう | dakyō | compromise; giving in |
| 職務 | しょくむ | shokumu | professional duties |
| いざ | — | iza | now; come (now); well; crucial moment |
| 特技 | とくぎ | tokugi | special skill |
| メロディー | — | merodī | melody |
| 牧師 | ぼくし | bokushi | pastor; minister; clergyman |
| 尊ぶ | たっとぶ | tattobu | to value; to prize; to esteem |
| 否 | いいえ | iie | no; nay; yes; well |
| 衛生 | えいせい | eisei | health; hygiene; sanitation; medical |
| 正に | まさに | masani | correctly; surely |
| 平方 | へいほう | heihō | square (e.g. metre); square |
| 極楽 | ごくらく | gokuraku | paradise |
| 国交 | こっこう | kokkō | diplomatic relations |
| パチンコ | — | pachinko | pachinko (Japanese pinball) |
| 復興 | ふっこう | fukkō | revival; renaissance; reconstruction |
| 阻止 | そし | soshi | obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; interdiction |
| 溶液 | ようえき | yōeki | solution (liquid) |
| 一部 | いちぶ | ichibu | 1. one copy e.g. of a document; 2. a part; partly; some |
| 交付 | こうふ | kōfu | delivering; furnishing (with copies) |
| カンニング | — | kanningu | cunning; cheat |
| 重なる | おもなる | omonaru | main; principal; important |
| 見逃す | みのがす | minogasu | to miss; to overlook; to leave at large |
| 世辞 | せじ | seji | flattery; compliment |
| 率いる | ひきいる | hikiiru | to lead; to spearhead (a group); to command (troops) |
| 屎尿 | しにょう | shinyō | excreta; raw sewage; human waste; night soil |
| 繊維 | せんい | sen'i | fibre; fiber; textile |
| 露 | つゆ | tsuyu | dew |
| 放置 | ほうち | hōchi | leave as is; leave to chance; leave alone; neglect |
| 積もり | つもり | tsumori | intention; plan |
| 眠たい | ねむたい | nemutai | sleepy |
| 軈て | やがて | yagate | before long; soon; at length |
| 規格 | きかく | kikaku | standard; norm |
| 拒否 | きょひ | kyohi | denial; veto; rejection; refusal |
| 休学 | きゅうがく | kyūgaku | temporary absence from school; suspension |
| 華奢 | かしゃ | kasha | luxury; pomp; delicate; slender; gorgeous |
| 嫋か | しなやか | shinayaka | supple; flexible; elastic |
| 密度 | みつど | mitsudo | density |
| 当て字 | あてじ | ateji | phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character |
| 戴きます | いただきます | itadakimasu | expression of gratitude before meals |
| 議決 | ぎけつ | giketsu | resolution; decision; vote |
| 耳鼻科 | じびか | jibika | otolaryngology |
| お洒落 | おしゃれ | oshare | smartly dressed; someone smartly dressed; fashion-conscious |
| 上がり | あがり | agari | 1. slope; advance income; crop yield; ascent; rise; advance; death; spinning; completion; stop; finish; after |
| 一定 | いちじょう | ichijō | fixed; settled; definite; uniform; regularized; defined; standardized; certain; prescribed |
| 攻め | せめ | seme | attack; offence |
| てんで | — | tende | (not) at all; altogether; entirely |
| 腐敗 | ふはい | fuhai | decay; depravity |
| 落ちる | おちる | ochiru | to fail (e.g. exam); to fall down; to drop |
| 添う | そう | sō | to accompany; to become married; to comply with |
| 仰っしゃる | おっしゃる | ossharu | to say; to speak; to tell; to talk |
| 所得 | しょとく | shotoku | income; earnings |
| 合成 | ごうせい | gōsei | synthesis; composition; synthetic; composite; mixed; combined; compound |
| 浜辺 | はまべ | hamabe | beach; foreshore |
| 対決 | たいけつ | taiketsu | confrontation; showdown |
| 群集 | ぐんしゅう | gunshū | (social) group; crowd; throng; mob; multitude |
| 研ぐ | とぐ | togu | to sharpen; to grind; to scour; to hone; to polish; to wash (rice) |
| ヒント | — | hinto | hint |
| 獲得 | かくとく | kakutoku | acquisition; possession |
| 落下 | らっか | rakka | fall; drop; come down |
| マスコミ | — | masukomi | mass communication |
| 事柄 | ことがら | kotogara | matter; thing; affair; circumstance |
| 切り | きり | kiri | limits; end; bounds; period; place to leave off; closing sentence; all there is; only; since |
| 助動詞 | じょどうし | jodōshi | auxiliary verb |
| 品種 | ひんしゅ | hinshu | brand; kind; description |
| 冊 | さつ | satsu | counter for books |
| 万能 | ばんのう | bannō | all-purpose; almighty; omnipotent |
| 定食 | ていしょく | teishoku | set meal; special (of the day) |
| 流通 | りゅうつう | ryūtsū | circulation of money or goods; flow of water or air; distribution |
| 蔵 | くら | kura | warehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown; depository; treasury; elevator |
| バット | — | batto | bat; vat |
| 正義 | せいぎ | seigi | justice; right; righteousness; correct meaning |
| ロマンチック | — | romanchikku | romantic |
| 玩具 | おもちゃ | omocha | toy |
| 崩壊 | ほうかい | hōkai | collapse; decay (physics); crumbling; breaking down; caving in |
| 免除 | めんじょ | menjo | exemption; exoneration; discharge |
| 検事 | けんじ | kenji | public prosecutor |
| アンケート | — | ankēto | (fr:) (n) questionnaire (fr: enquete); survey |
| 碌に | ろくに | rokuni | well; enough; sufficient |
| 動向 | どうこう | dōkō | trend; tendency; movement; attitude |
| 下品 | かひん | kahin | inferior article |
| 制裁 | せいさい | seisai | restraint; sanctions; punishment |
| 接続詞 | せつぞくし | setsuzokushi | conjunction |
| 凶作 | きょうさく | kyōsaku | bad harvest; poor crop |
| 固有 | こゆう | koyū | characteristic; tradition; peculiar; inherent; eigen- |
| 浮かぶ | うかぶ | ukabu | to float; to rise to surface; to come to mind |
| 賛美 | さんび | sanbi | praise; adoration; glorification |
| じっくり | — | jikkuri | deliberately; carefully |
| シック | — | shikku | chic |
| 忠実 | ちゅうじつ | chūjitsu | fidelity; faithfulness |
| 絶つ | たつ | tatsu | to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to abstain (from) |
| 制約 | せいやく | seiyaku | limitation; restriction; condition; constraints |
| 伜 | せがれ | segare | son; my son |
| 点検 | てんけん | tenken | inspection; examination; checking |
| アップ | — | appu | up |
| 取り除く | とりのぞく | torinozoku | to remove; to take away; to set apart |
| 上昇 | じょうしょう | jōshō | rising; ascending; climbing |
| 街頭 | がいとう | gaitō | in the street |
| 合間 | あいま | aima | interval |
| 方策 | ほうさく | hōsaku | plan; policy |
| 上位 | じょうい | jōi | superior (rank not class); higher order (e.g. byte); host computer (of connected device) |
| 慎む | つつしむ | tsutsushimu | to be careful; to be chaste or discreet; to abstain or refrain |
| エンジニア | — | enjinia | engineer |
| 構え | かまえ | kamae | posture; pose; style |
| 気楽 | きらく | kiraku | at ease; comfortable |
| 辿り着く | たどりつく | tadoritsuku | to grope along to; to struggle on to; to arrive somewhere after a struggle |
| 間もなく | まもなく | mamonaku | soon; before long; in a short time |
| 学芸 | がくげい | gakugei | arts and sciences; liberal arts |
| 其れ故 | それゆえ | soreyue | therefore; for that reason; so |
| 差異 | さい | sai | difference; disparity |
| 役場 | やくば | yakuba | town hall |
| ご苦労様 | ごくろうさま | gokurōsama | Thank you very much for your.... |
| 議題 | ぎだい | gidai | topic of discussion; agenda |
| 保温 | ほおん | hōn | retaining warmth; keeping heat in; heat insulation |
| 一敗 | いっぱい | ippai | one defeat |
| 破壊 | はかい | hakai | destruction |
| 酸化 | さんか | sanka | oxidation |
| しまった | — | shimatta | Damn it! |
| 再建 | さいけん | saiken | rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation |
| 厳か | おごそか | ogosoka | austere; majestic; dignified; stately; awful; impressive |
| 理性 | りせい | risei | reason; sense |
| 着飾る | きかざる | kikazaru | to dress up |
| 火花 | ひばな | hibana | spark |
| 寄贈 | きそう | kisō | donation; presentation |
| 健全 | けんぜん | kenzen | health; soundness; wholesome |
| 天国 | てんごく | tengoku | paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven |
| 個 | か | ka | article counter |
| インターナショナル | — | intānashonaru | international |
| 共鳴 | きょうめい | kyōmei | resonance; sympathy |
| 連なる | つらなる | tsuranaru | to extend; to stretch out; to stand in a row |
| 玄人 | くろうと | kurōto | expert; professional; geisha; prostitute |
| 大柄 | おおがら | ōgara | large build; large pattern |
| 弱る | よわる | yowaru | to weaken; to be troubled; to be downcast; to be emaciated; to be dejected; to be perplexed; to impair |
| 役 | えき | eki | war; campaign; battle |
| 辻褄 | つじつま | tsujitsuma | coherence; consistency |
| 何より | なにより | naniyori | most; best |
| イエス | — | iesu | Jesus; yes |
| 称する | しょうする | shōsuru | to pretend; to take the name of; to feign; to purport |
| 堂々 | どうどう | dōdō | magnificent; grand; impressive |
| 推理 | すいり | suiri | reasoning; inference; mystery or detective genre (movie novel etc.) |
| 化する | かする | kasuru | to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone) |
| 取り寄せる | とりよせる | toriyoseru | to order; to send away for |
| 傾 | けい | kei | lean; incline |
| 夥しい | おびただしい | obitadashii | abundantly; innumerably |
| 自己 | じこ | jiko | self; oneself |
| 申し入れる | もうしいれる | mōshiireru | to propose; to suggest |
| 口述 | こうじゅつ | kōjutsu | verbal statement |
| 打撃 | だげき | dageki | 1. blow; shock; strike; damage; 2. batting (baseball) |
| 解く | ほどく | hodoku | to unfasten |
| ポーズ | — | pōzu | pause |
| 期末 | きまつ | kimatsu | end of term |
| 吃驚 | びっくり | bikkuri | be surprised; be amazed; be frightened; astonishment |
| 古 | いにしえ | inishie | antiquity; ancient times |
| 入浴 | にゅうよく | nyūyoku | bathe; bathing |
| 嵩む | かさむ | kasamu | to pile up; to increase |
| 各 | おのおの | onōno | each; every; either; respectively; severally |
| ポジション | — | pojishon | position |
| 些とも | ちっとも | chittomo | not at all (neg. verb) |
| ファン | — | fan | fan; fun |
| 緊急 | きんきゅう | kinkyū | urgent; pressing; emergency |
| 若しかしたら | もしかしたら | moshikashitara | perhaps; maybe; by some chance |
| 気象 | きしょう | kishō | weather; climate |
| 規制 | きせい | kisei | regulation |
| し | — | shi | 10^24 (kanji is JIS X 0212 kuten 4906); septillion (American); quadrillion (British) |
| 昇進 | しょうしん | shōshin | promotion |
| 確定 | かくてい | kakutei | definition (math); decision; settlement |
| ぼやける | — | boyakeru | to become dim; to become blurred |
| 産後 | さんご | sango | postpartum; after childbirth |
| 打ち合わせ | うちあわせ | uchiawase | business meeting; previous arrangement; appointment |
| 秩序 | ちつじょ | chitsujo | order; regularity; system; method |
| 制服 | せいふく | seifuku | uniform |
| 雨天 | うてん | uten | rainy weather |
| 可愛らしい | かわいらしい | kawairashii | lovely; sweet |
| 域外 | いきがい | ikigai | outside the area |
| 捲る | まくる | makuru | verb suffix to indicate reckless abandon to the activity |
| 何なり | なんなり | nannari | any; anything; whatever |
| 投資 | とうし | tōshi | investment |
| 仙 | せん | sen | hermit; wizard |
| 外観 | がいかん | gaikan | appearance; exterior; facade |
| 土産 | どさん | dosan | product of the land |
| 観 | かん | kan | look; appearance; spectacle |
| 真ん前 | まんまえ | manmae | right in front; under the nose |
| 市街 | しがい | shigai | urban areas; the streets; town; city |
| 走行 | そうこう | sōkō | running a wheeled vehicle (e.g. car); traveling |
| 標語 | ひょうご | hyōgo | motto; slogan; catchword |
| 良質 | りょうしつ | ryōshitsu | good quality; superior quality |
| 境遇 | きょうぐう | kyōgū | environment; circumstances |
| 導入 | どうにゅう | dōnyū | introduction; bringing in; leading in |
| ダンプ | — | danpu | dump |
| 発言 | はつげん | hatsugen | utterance; speech; proposal |
| 決議 | けつぎ | ketsugi | resolution; vote; decision |
| 素っ気ない | そっけない | sokkenai | cold; short; curt; blunt |
| 下がる | さがる | sagaru | to hang down; to abate; to retire; to fall; to step back |
| 謙る | へりくだる | herikudaru | to deprecate oneself and praise the listener |
| 田園 | でんえん | den'en | country; rural districts |
| 改革 | かいかく | kaikaku | reform; reformation; innovation |
| スペース | — | supēsu | space |
| 混同 | こんどう | kondō | confusion; mixing; merger |
| ぺこぺこ | — | pekopeko | fawn; be very hungry |
| 騒動 | そうどう | sōdō | strife; riot; rebellion |
| 済ます | すます | sumasu | to finish; to get it over with; to settle; to conclude; to pay back |
| 無茶 | むちゃ | mucha | absurd; unreasonable; excessive; rash; absurdity; nonsense |
| 茶の湯 | ちゃのゆ | chanoyu | tea ceremony |
| 欠く | かく | kaku | to lack; to break; to crack; to chip |
| 封鎖 | ふうさ | fūsa | blockade; freezing (funds) |
| 名残 | なごり | nagori | remains; traces; memory |
| 婿 | むこ | muko | son-in-law |
| きっぱり | — | kippari | clearly; plainly; distinctly |
| 丸で | まるで | marude | quite; entirely; completely; at all; as if; as though; so to speak |
| 先着 | せんちゃく | senchaku | first arrival |
| 当てはめる | あてはめる | atehameru | to apply; to adapt |
| 身近 | みぢか | mijika | near oneself; close to one; familiar |
| 映像 | えいぞう | eizō | reflection; image |
| 仕組み | しくみ | shikumi | devising; plan; plot; contrivance; construction; arrangement |
| 手回し | てまわし | temawashi | preparations; arrangements |
| 締め切り | しめきり | shimekiri | closing; cut-off; end; deadline; Closed; No Entrance |
| 護衛 | ごえい | goei | guard; convoy; escort |
| 弁解 | べんかい | benkai | explanation; justification; defence; excuse |
| 解除 | かいじょ | kaijo | cancellation; rescinding; release; calling off |
| 勤労 | きんろう | kinrō | labor; exertion; diligent service |
| 天井 | てんじょう | tenjō | ceiling; ceiling price |
| 上陸 | じょうりく | jōriku | landing; disembarkation |
| 途中 | つちゅう | tsuchū | on the way; en route |
| 用品 | ようひん | yōhin | articles; supplies; parts |
| 返る | かえる | kaeru | to return; to come back; to go back |
| 乗客 | じょうかく | jōkaku | passenger |
| 手際 | てぎわ | tegiwa | performance; skill; tact |
| 給仕 | きゅうじ | kyūji | office boy (girl); page; waiter |
| 壮大 | そうだい | sōdai | magnificent; grand; majestic; splendid |
| 少数 | しょうすう | shōsū | minority; few |
| 黄金 | おうごん | ōgon | gold |
| 所在 | しょざい | shozai | whereabouts |
| 思い付き | おもいつき | omoitsuki | plan; idea; suggestion |
| 一概に | いちがいに | ichigaini | unconditionally; as a rule |
| 新興 | しんこう | shinkō | rising; developing; emergent |
| 作り | つくり | tsukuri | make-up; sliced raw fish |
| 抜かす | ぬかす | nukasu | to omit; to leave out |
| 激励 | げきれい | gekirei | encouragement |
| 段々 | だんだん | dandan | gradually; by degrees |
| 好ましい | このましい | konomashii | nice; likeable; desirable |
| 素早い | すばやい | subayai | fast; quick; prompt; agile |
| 伝説 | でんせつ | densetsu | tradition; legend; folklore |
| 現像 | げんぞう | genzō | developing (film) |
| 傍ら | かたわら | katawara | beside(s); while; nearby |
| 宣教 | せんきょう | senkyō | religious mission |
| 手芸 | しゅげい | shugei | handicrafts |
| 短気 | たんき | tanki | quick temper |
| デモンストレーション | — | demonsutorēshon | demonstration |
| 整える | ととのえる | totonoeru | to put in order; to get ready; to arrange; to adjust |
| 死刑 | しけい | shikei | death penalty; capital punishment |
| 見っともない | みっともない | mittomonai | shameful; indecent |
| 行為 | こうい | kōi | act; deed; conduct |
| 改修 | かいしゅう | kaishū | repair; improvement |
| 農地 | のうち | nōchi | agricultural land |
| 打ち消し | うちけし | uchikeshi | negation; denial; negative |
| 煩わしい | わずらわしい | wazurawashii | troublesome; annoying; complicated |
| 悉く | ことごとく | kotogotoku | altogether; entirely |
| 軌道 | きどう | kidō | orbit; railroad track |
| 未定 | みてい | mitei | not yet fixed; undecided; pending |
| 干し物 | ほしもの | hoshimono | dried washing (clothes) |
| 心地 | ここち | kokochi | feeling; sensation; mood |
| 扉 | とびら | tobira | door; opening |
| 僧 | そう | sō | monk; priest |
| 権威 | けんい | ken'i | authority; power; influence |
| 纏まり | まとまり | matomari | conclusion; settlement; consistency |
| 強行 | きょうこう | kyōkō | forcing; enforcement |
| 天体 | てんたい | tentai | heavenly body |
| 施行 | しぎょう | shigyō | 1. execution; enforcing; carrying out |
| 逆転 | ぎゃくてん | gyakuten | (sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball) |
| 腫れる | はれる | hareru | to swell (from inflammation); to become swollen |
| 傾く | かたぶく | katabuku | to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to heel over; to be disposed to; to trend toward; to be prone to; to |
| 劇団 | げきだん | gekidan | troupe; theatrical company |
| 錆び | さび | sabi | rust (colour) |
| 洒落 | しゃらく | sharaku | frank; open-hearted |
| 追跡 | ついせき | tsuiseki | pursuit |
| 当人 | とうにん | tōnin | the one concerned; the said person |
| 集計 | しゅうけい | shūkei | totalization; aggregate |
| 呆気ない | あっけない | akkenai | not enough; too quick (short long etc.) |
| 澄ます | すます | sumasu | to clear; to make clear; to be unruffled; to look unconcerned; to look demure; look prim; put on airs |
| 着陸 | ちゃくりく | chakuriku | landing; alighting; touch down |
| 堤防 | ていぼう | teibō | bank; weir |
| 裏返し | うらがえし | uragaeshi | inside out; upside down |
| 組み込む | くみこむ | kumikomu | to insert; to include; to cut in (printing) |
| あら | — | ara | oh; ah; saw-edged perch (Niphon spinosus) |
| 弾力 | だんりょく | danryoku | elasticity; flexibility |
| 動機 | どうき | dōki | motive; incentive |
| セックス | — | sekkusu | sexual intercourse |
| 拘束 | こうそく | kōsoku | restriction; restraint |
| 躓く | つまずく | tsumazuku | to stumble; to trip |
| 浜 | はま | hama | beach; seashore |
| 同意 | どうい | dōi | agreement; consent; same meaning; same opinion; approval |
| オリエンテーション | — | orientēshon | orientation |
| お巡りさん | おまわりさん | omawarisan | policeman (friendly term) |
| 勝る | まさる | masaru | to excel; to surpass; to outrival |
| 掛け | かけ | kake | credit |
| 対処 | たいしょ | taisho | deal with; cope |
| 言伝 | ことづて | kotozute | declaration; hearsay |
| 改訂 | かいてい | kaitei | revision |
| 交易 | こうえき | kōeki | trade; commerce |
| 財源 | ざいげん | zaigen | source of funds; resources; finances |
| 日焼け | ひやけ | hiyake | sunburn |
| 勧め | すすめ | susume | recommendation; advice; encouragement |
| 証人 | しょうにん | shōnin | witness |
| 聴診器 | ちょうしんき | chōshinki | stethoscope |
| 非難 | ひなん | hinan | blame; attack; criticism |
| スタジオ | — | sutajio | studio |
| 止むを得ない | やむをえない | yamuoenai | cannot be helped; unavoidable |
| 放出 | ほうしゅつ | hōshutsu | release; emit |
| 赴任 | ふにん | funin | (proceeding to) new appointment |
| 頑固 | がんこ | ganko | stubbornness; obstinacy |
| 手元 | てもと | temoto | on hand; at hand; at home |
| 預金 | よきん | yokin | deposit; bank account |
| 六 | む | mu | (num) six |
| ネガ | — | nega | (photographic) negative |
| 切実 | せつじつ | setsujitsu | compelling; serious; severe; acute; earnest; pressing; urgent |
| 賢明 | けんめい | kenmei | wisdom; intelligence; prudence |
| 染まる | そまる | somaru | to dye |
| 調和 | ちょうわ | chōwa | harmony |
| 眼球 | がんきゅう | gankyū | eyeball |
| ベストセラー | — | besutoserā | best-seller |
| 対談 | たいだん | taidan | talk; dialogue; conversation |
| 和やか | なごやか | nagoyaka | mild; calm; gentle; quiet; harmonious |
| 引っ掛ける | ひっかける | hikkakeru | 1. to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes); 2. to hook; to catch; to trap; to ensnar |
| 特派 | とくは | tokuha | send specially; special envoy |
| 肝心 | かんじん | kanjin | essential; fundamental; crucial; vital; main |
| 衣装 | いしょう | ishō | clothing; costume; outfit; garment; dress |
| 課題 | かだい | kadai | subject; theme; task |
| 無礼 | ぶれい | burei | impolite; rude |
| 要する | ようする | yōsuru | to demand; to require; to take |
| 当たり前 | あたりまえ | atarimae | usual; common; ordinary; natural; reasonable; obvious |
| 目覚める | めざめる | mezameru | to wake up |
| 十字路 | じゅうじろ | jūjiro | crossroads |
| 悟る | さとる | satoru | to attain enlightenment; to perceive; to understand; to discern |
| 老いる | おいる | oiru | to age; to grow old |
| 厭やらしい | いやらしい | iyarashii | detestable; disagreeable |
| スピード | — | supīdo | speed |
| 歩み | あゆみ | ayumi | walking |
| やっ付ける | やっつける | yattsukeru | to beat |
| 伝達 | でんたつ | dentatsu | transmission (e.g. news); communication; delivery |
| おっかない | — | okkanai | frightening; huge |
| 構える | かまえる | kamaeru | to set up |
| 賑わう | にぎわう | nigiwau | to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business; to be crowded with people |
| 直面 | ちょくめん | chokumen | confrontation |
| 濫用 | らんよう | ran'yō | abuse; misuse; misappropriation; using to excess |
| 単独 | たんどく | tandoku | sole; independence; single; solo (flight) |
| 殊に | ことに | kotoni | especially; above all |
| 購買 | こうばい | kōbai | purchase; buy |
| 張り紙 | はりがみ | harigami | paper patch; paper backing; poster |
| 惑星 | わくせい | wakusei | planet |
| 其の儘 | そのまま | sonomama | without change; as it is (i.e. now) |
| 反乱 | はんらん | hanran | insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising |
| 露骨 | ろこつ | rokotsu | 1. frank; blunt; plain; outspoken; 2. conspicuous; open; 3. broad; suggestive |
| 凭れる | もたれる | motareru | to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; to lie heavy (on the stomach) |
| 宜しく | よろしく | yoroshiku | well; properly; suitably; best regards; please remember me |
| 其れ共 | それとも | soretomo | or; or else |
| 作戦 | さくせん | sakusen | military or naval operations; tactics; strategy |
| 柱 | はしら | hashira | pillar; post |
| 人民 | じんみん | jinmin | people; public |
| 利点 | りてん | riten | advantage; point in favor |
| 海流 | かいりゅう | kairyū | ocean current |
| 除外 | じょがい | jogai | exception; exclusion |
| 傲る | おごる | ogoru | to be proud |
| 脳 | のう | nō | brain; memory |
| 玉 | ぎょく | gyoku | king (shogi) |
| 行 | ぎょう | gyō | line; row; verse |
| その上 | そのうえ | sonōe | in addition; furthermore |
| 唾 | つば | tsuba | saliva; sputum |
| 強まる | つよまる | tsuyomaru | to get strong; to gain strength |
| 裁く | さばく | sabaku | to judge |
| 海抜 | かいばつ | kaibatsu | height above sea level |
| ジャンパー | — | janpā | jacket; jumper |
| 詳細 | しょうさい | shōsai | detail; particulars |
| 酸 | さん | san | acid |
| 特権 | とっけん | tokken | privilege; special right |
| 差し引く | さしひく | sashihiku | to deduct |
| 平均 | ならし | narashi | equilibrium; balance; average; mean |
| お世辞 | おせじ | oseji | flattery; compliment |
| 熱意 | ねつい | netsui | zeal; enthusiasm |
| 動き | うごき | ugoki | movement; activity; trend; development; change |
| 鉱業 | こうぎょう | kōgyō | mining industry |
| 利子 | りし | rishi | interest (bank) |
| 倒産 | とうさん | tōsan | (corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency |
| 添える | そえる | soeru | to add to; to attach; to append; to accompany; to garnish; to imitate; to annex |
| 分業 | ぶんぎょう | bungyō | division of labor; specialization; assembly-line production |
| 復旧 | ふくきゅう | fukukyū | restoration; restitution; rehabilitation |
| 蔵相 | ぞうしょう | zōshō | Minister of Finance |
| 無茶苦茶 | むちゃくちゃ | muchakucha | confused; jumbled; mixed up; unreasonable |
| 実践 | じっせん | jissen | practice; put into practice |
| 紛失 | ふんしつ | funshitsu | losing something |
| 勤務 | きんむ | kinmu | service; duty; work |
| 昆虫 | こんちゅう | konchū | insect; bug |
| 泌み泌み | しみじみ | shimijimi | keenly; deeply; heartily |
| 庁 | ちょう | chō | government office |
| 兆し | きざし | kizashi | signs; omen; symptoms |
| 賛成 | さんせい | sansei | approval; agreement; support; favour |
| 下火 | したび | shitabi | burning low; waning; declining |
| 徴収 | ちょうしゅう | chōshū | collection; levy |
| 無意味 | むいみ | muimi | nonsense; no meaning |
| 壇 | だん | dan | 1. platform; podium; rostrum; 2. (arch) mandala |
| 全盛 | ぜんせい | zensei | height of prosperity |
| 依然 | いぜん | izen | still; as yet |
| 扱い | あつかい | atsukai | treatment; service |
| 汚れ | けがれ | kegare | uncleanness; impurity; disgrace |
| 紛らわしい | まぎらわしい | magirawashii | confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous |
| 覚え | おぼえ | oboe | memory; sense; experience |
| タイム | — | taimu | time |
| 原っぱ | はらっぱ | harappa | open field; empty lot; plain |
| 正しく | まさしく | masashiku | surely; no doubt; evidently |
| ジャンプ | — | janpu | jump |
| 藁 | わら | wara | straw |
| 細菌 | さいきん | saikin | bacillus; bacterium; germ |
| 嘆く | なげく | nageku | to sigh; to lament; to grieve |
| 吝嗇 | けち | kechi | stinginess; miser; miserliness; skinflint; tightwad; niggard; pinching pennies |
| 悩ましい | なやましい | nayamashii | seductive; melancholy; languid |
| 一まず | ひとまず | hitomazu | for the present; once; in outline |
| 内乱 | ないらん | nairan | civil war; insurrection; rebellion; domestic conflict |
| 生死 | せいし | seishi | life and death |
| 修飾 | しゅうしょく | shūshoku | ornamentation; embellishment; decoration; adornment; polish up (writing); modification (gram) |
| 換算 | かんさん | kansan | conversion; change; exchange |
| 何故 | なぜ | naze | why; how |
| 物議 | ぶつぎ | butsugi | public discussion (criticism) |
| 主体 | しゅたい | shutai | subject; main constituent |
| 描写 | びょうしゃ | byōsha | depiction; description; portrayal |
| 追い込む | おいこむ | oikomu | to herd; to corner; to drive |
| 噛み切る | かみきる | kamikiru | to bite off; to gnaw through |
| 犯す | おかす | okasu | to commit; to perpetrate; to violate; to rape |
| 了解 | りょうかい | ryōkai | comprehension; consent; understanding; roger (on the radio) |
| 運輸 | うんゆ | un'yu | transportation |
| 苦しめる | くるしめる | kurushimeru | to torment; to harass; to inflict pain |
| 見苦しい | みぐるしい | migurushii | unsightly; ugly |
| 規約 | きやく | kiyaku | agreement; rules; code |
| ジャンボ | — | janbo | jumbo |
| 過ぎ | すぎ | sugi | past; after |
| 物体ない | もったいない | mottainai | too good; more than one deserves; wasteful; sacrilegious; unworthy of |
| たった | — | tatta | only; merely; but; no more than |
| 邸宅 | ていたく | teitaku | mansion; residence |
| 相場 | そうば | sōba | market price; speculation; estimation |
| 怪獣 | かいじゅう | kaijū | monster |
| 洒落る | しゃれる | shareru | to joke; to play on words; to dress stylishly |
| 対抗 | たいこう | taikō | opposition; antagonism |
| 火燵 | こたつ | kotatsu | table with heater; (orig) charcoal brazier in a floor well |
| 惜しむ | おしむ | oshimu | to be frugal; to value; to regret |
| 手順 | てじゅん | tejun | process; procedure; protocol |
| 取り分 | とりわけ | toriwake | especially; above all |
| 頬っぺた | ほっぺた | hoppeta | cheek |
| 新人 | しんじん | shinjin | new face; newcomer |
| レディー | — | redī | lady |
| 跡切れる | とぎれる | togireru | to pause; to be interrupted |
| 守衛 | しゅえい | shuei | security guard; doorkeeper |
| 国境 | くにざかい | kunizakai | national or state border |
| 自動詞 | じどうし | jidōshi | intransitive verb (no direct obj) |
| 提供 | ていきょう | teikyō | offer; tender; program sponsoring; furnishing |
| 言論 | げんろん | genron | discussion |
| 有難う | ありがとう | arigatō | Thank you |
| 模型 | もけい | mokei | model; dummy; maquette |
| パンク | — | panku | 1. (abbr) puncture; bursting; 2. punk |
| 対面 | たいめん | taimen | interview; meeting |
| 授ける | さずける | sazukeru | to grant; to award; to teach |
| 沿岸 | えんがん | engan | coast; shore |
| 保障 | ほしょう | hoshō | guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty |
| 遥か | はるか | haruka | far; far-away; distant; remote; far off |
| 愚痴 | ぐち | guchi | idle complaint; grumble |
| 声明 | せいめい | seimei | declaration; statement; proclamation |
| 本場 | ほんば | honba | home; habitat; center; best place; genuine |
| グレー | — | gurē | grey; gray |
| 寒気 | かんき | kanki | cold; frost; chill |
| 塾 | じゅく | juku | coaching school; lessons |
| 高 | たか | taka | quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money |
| 骨 | こつ | kotsu | knack; skill |
| 破棄 | はき | haki | revocation; annulment; breaking (e.g. treaty) |
| 語彙 | ごい | goi | vocabulary; glossary |
| 固体 | こたい | kotai | solid (body) |
| 体付き | からだつき | karadatsuki | body build; figure |
| 荷 | に | ni | load; baggage; cargo |
| いく | — | iku | to come; to orgasm |
| 権限 | けんげん | kengen | power; authority; jurisdiction |
| 日々 | ひび | hibi | every day; daily; day after day |
| 時折 | ときおり | tokiori | sometimes |
| 調印 | ちょういん | chōin | signature; sign; sealing |
| コントロール | — | kontorōru | control |
| 進化 | しんか | shinka | evolution; progress |
| 器官 | きかん | kikan | organ (of body); instrument |
| ずばり | — | zubari | decisively; decidedly; once and for all; unreservedly; frankly |
| 眩しい | まぶしい | mabushii | dazzling; radiant |
| 咄嗟 | とっさ | tossa | moment; instant |
| 威力 | いりょく | iryoku | power; might; authority; influence |
| ぼやく | — | boyaku | to grumble; to complain |
| 記す | しるす | shirusu | to note; to write down |
| 所属 | しょぞく | shozoku | attached to; belong to |
| 内臓 | ないぞう | naizō | internal organs; intestines; viscera |
| 体 | てい | tei | appearance; air; condition; state; form |
| 修学 | しゅうがく | shūgaku | learning |
| 衣料 | いりょう | iryō | clothing |
| 内訳 | うちわけ | uchiwake | the items; breakdown; classification |
| 匹敵 | ひってき | hitteki | comparing with; match; rival; equal |
| 刷り | すり | suri | printing |
| 整然 | せいぜん | seizen | orderly; regular; well-organized; trim; accurate |
| コンパス | — | konpasu | compass |
| ミスプリント | — | misupurinto | misprint |
| 形勢 | けいせい | keisei | condition; situation; prospects |
| 不評 | ふひょう | fuhyō | bad reputation; disgrace; unpopularity |
| ドライブイン | — | doraibuin | drive in |
| 案の定 | あんのじょう | annojō | sure enough; as usual |
| 拗れる | こじれる | kojireru | to get complicated; to grow worse |
| 名産 | めいさん | meisan | noted product |
| 駆け足 | かけあし | kakeashi | running fast; double time |
| びっしょり | — | bisshori | wet through; drenched |
| 左程 | さほど | sahodo | (not) very; (not) much |
| 匹 | ひき | hiki | head; small animal counter; roll of cloth |
| 国土 | こくど | kokudo | realm |
| 収まる | おさまる | osamaru | to be obtained; to end; to settle into; to fit into; to be settled; to be paid; to be delivered |
| タレント | — | tarento | talent; star; personality |
| 有する | ゆうする | yūsuru | to own; to be endowed with |
| 楽観 | らっかん | rakkan | optimism |
| 奉仕 | ほうし | hōshi | attendance; service |
| 分担 | ぶんたん | buntan | apportionment; sharing |
| 無効 | むこう | mukō | invalid; no effect; unavailable |
| 準じる | じゅんじる | junjiru | to follow; to conform; to apply to |
| 縮まる | ちぢまる | chijimaru | to be shortened; to be contracted; to shrink |
| レバー | — | rebā | lever; liver |
| 交渉 | こうしょう | kōshō | negotiations; discussions; connection |
| 取り締まり | とりしまり | torishimari | control; management; supervision |
| 慌てる | あわてる | awateru | to become confused (disconcerted disorganized) |
| 分子 | ぶんし | bunshi | numerator; molecule |
| 経緯 | いきさつ | ikisatsu | 1. details; whole story; sequence of events; particulars; how it started; how things got this way; 2. c |
| 一昨昨日 | さきおととい | sakiototoi | two days before yesterday |
| 可成 | かなり | kanari | considerably; fairly; quite |
| 著 | ちゃく | chaku | counter for suits of clothing; arriving at .. |
| 促す | うながす | unagasu | to urge; to press; to suggest; to demand; to stimulate; to quicken; to incite; to invite (attention to) |
| 尽きる | つきる | tsukiru | to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end |
| 階 | かい | kai | -floor (counter); stories |
| セール | — | sēru | sale |
| 受け入れる | うけいれる | ukeireru | to accept; to receive |
| 売り出す | うりだす | uridasu | to put on sale; to market; to become popular |
| 刑罰 | けいばつ | keibatsu | judgement; penalty; punishment |
| 取っ手 | とって | totte | handle; grip; knob |
| 警戒 | けいかい | keikai | warning; admonition; vigilance |
| 処置 | しょち | shochi | treatment |
| 接触 | せっしょく | sesshoku | touch; contact |
| 刺 | とげ | toge | thorn; splinter; spine; biting words |
| 雄 | おす | osu | male (animal) |
| 久し振り | ひさしぶり | hisashiburi | after a long time |
| 沢山 | たくさん | takusan | many; a lot; much |
| 存続 | そんぞく | sonzoku | duration; continuance |
| 中傷 | ちゅうしょう | chūshō | slander; libel; defamation |
| 根回し | ねまわし | nemawashi | making necessary arrangements |
| 連日 | れんじつ | renjitsu | every day; prolonged |
| 操縦 | そうじゅう | sōjū | management; handling; control; manipulation |
| 噛る | かじる | kajiru | to chew; to bite (at); to gnaw; to nibble; to munch; to crunch; to have a smattering of |
| 零れる | こぼれる | koboreru | to overflow; to spill |
| 凝らす | こごらす | kogorasu | to freeze; to congeal |
| 振動 | しんどう | shindō | oscillation; vibration |
| 蜜 | みつ | mitsu | nectar; honey |
| 静的 | せいてき | seiteki | static |
| 歎 | たん | tan | grief; sigh; lamentation |
| 終わる | おわる | owaru | to finish; to close |
| 不景気 | ふけいき | fukeiki | business recession; hard times; depression; gloom; sullenness; cheerlessness |
| 呼び止める | よびとめる | yobitomeru | to challenge; to call somebody to halt |
| 小銭 | こぜに | kozeni | coins; small change |
| 洪水 | こうずい | kōzui | flood |
| 近眼 | きんがん | kingan | nearsightedness; shortsightedness; myopia |
| 脆い | もろい | moroi | brittle; fragile; tender-hearted |
| 配布 | はいふ | haifu | distribution |
| 停滞 | ていたい | teitai | stagnation; tie-up; congestion; retention; accumulation; falling into arrears |
| 事前 | じぜん | jizen | prior; beforehand; in advance |
| 漕ぐ | こぐ | kogu | to row; to scull; to pedal |
| 言い訳 | いいわけ | iiwake | excuse; explanation |
| 譲歩 | じょうほ | jōho | concession; conciliation; compromise |
| 各々 | それぞれ | sorezore | each; every; either; respectively; severally |
| 抗争 | こうそう | kōsō | dispute; resistance |
| 駆ける | かける | kakeru | to run (race esp. horse); to gallop; to canter |
| 闇 | やみ | yami | darkness; the dark; black-marketeering; dark; shady; illegal |
| キャッチ | — | kyatchi | catch |
| 偶に | たまに | tamani | occasionally; once in a while |
| 難 | なん | nan | difficulty; hardships; defect |
| 特産 | とくさん | tokusan | specialty; special product |
| 鋏 | はさみ | hasami | scissors |
| 指図 | さしず | sashizu | instruction; mandate |
| 履歴 | りれき | rireki | personal history; background; career; log |
| 敗戦 | はいせん | haisen | defeat; losing a war |
| 聳える | そびえる | sobieru | to rise; to tower; to soar |
| 資金 | しきん | shikin | funds; capital |
| 足し算 | たしざん | tashizan | addition |
| 念 | ねん | nen | sense; idea; thought; feeling; desire; concern; attention; care |
| 一見 | いちげん | ichigen | unfamiliar; never before met |
| 進路 | しんろ | shinro | course; route |
| 通 | つう | tsū | connoisseur; counter for letters |
| 歓声 | かんせい | kansei | cheer; shout of joy |
| 並列 | へいれつ | heiretsu | arrangement; parallel; abreast |
| 望ましい | のぞましい | nozomashii | desirable; hoped for |
| 現場 | げんじょう | genjō | actual spot; scene; scene of the crime |
| 備え付ける | そなえつける | sonaetsukeru | to provide; to furnish; to equip; to install |
| 日夜 | にちや | nichiya | day and night; always |
| ベスト | — | besuto | best; vest |
| 装備 | そうび | sōbi | equipment |
| 云々 | うんぬん | unnun | and so on; and so forth; comment |
| 敬具 | けいぐ | keigu | Sincerely yours |
| まごつく | — | magotsuku | to be confused; to be flustered |
| 早急 | さっきゅう | sakkyū | urgent |
| 冠 | かん | kan | crown; diadem; first; best; peerless; cap; naming; designating; initiating on coming of age; top character ra |
| 割り込む | わりこむ | warikomu | to cut in; to thrust oneself into; to wedge oneself in; to muscle in on; to interrupt; to disturb |
| 用紙 | ようし | yōshi | blank form |
| 一頃 | ひところ | hitokoro | once; some time ago |
| 氏 | うじ | uji | family name |
| カテゴリー | — | kategorī | category |
| 判 | はん | han | seal; stamp; monogram signature; judgment |
| 見掛ける | みかける | mikakeru | to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of |
| 宛てる | あてる | ateru | to address |
| 実態 | じったい | jittai | truth; fact |
| 偏見 | へんけん | henken | prejudice; narrow view |
| 林業 | りんぎょう | ringyō | forestry |
| 一括 | いっかつ | ikkatsu | all together; batch; one lump; one bundle; summing up |
| 屋敷 | やしき | yashiki | mansion |
| 片言 | かたこと | katakoto | a smattering; talk like a baby; speak haltingly |
| 縁側 | えんがわ | engawa | veranda; porch; balcony; open corridor |
| 益々 | ますます | masumasu | increasingly; more and more |
| 公演 | こうえん | kōen | public performance |
| 必修 | ひっしゅう | hisshū | required (subject) |
| 現われ | あらわれ | araware | embodiment; materialization |
| 乱す | みだす | midasu | to throw out of order; to disarrange; to disturb |
| 交わる | まじわる | majiwaru | to cross; to intersect; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest; to join |
| 点線 | てんせん | tensen | dotted line; perforated line |
| 痛める | いためる | itameru | to hurt; to injure; to cause pain; to worry; to bother; to afflict; to be grieved over |
| 頼み | たのみ | tanomi | request; favor; reliance; dependence |
| 事業 | じぎょう | jigyō | project; enterprise; business; industry; operations |
| 単一 | たんいつ | tan'itsu | single; simple; sole; individual; unitory |
| 比例 | ひれい | hirei | proportion |
| 意欲 | いよく | iyoku | will; desire; ambition |
| 天災 | てんさい | tensai | natural calamity; disaster |
| 罰 | ばち | bachi | (divine) punishment; curse; retribution |
| 商人 | あきうど | akiudo | trader; shopkeeper; merchant |
| 消耗 | しょうこう | shōkō | exhaustion; consumption |
| 領海 | りょうかい | ryōkai | territorial waters |
| 和らげる | やわらげる | yawarageru | to soften; to moderate; to relieve |
| 報じる | ほうじる | hōjiru | to inform; to report |
| 外方 | そっぽ | soppo | look (or turn) the other way |
| 空間 | あきま | akima | vacancy; room for rent or lease |
| 修了 | しゅうりょう | shūryō | completion (of a course) |
| 反応 | はんのう | hannō | reaction; response |
| 探検 | たんけん | tanken | exploration; expedition |
| 宮殿 | きゅうでん | kyūden | palace |
| 放り込む | ほうりこむ | hōrikomu | to throw into |
| 小児科 | しょうにか | shōnika | pediatrics |
| 発条 | ばね | bane | spring (e.g. coil leaf) |
| 散蒔く | ばらまく | baramaku | to disseminate; to scatter; to give money freely |
| 蕩ける | とろける | torokeru | to be enchanted with |
| 鮮やか | あざやか | azayaka | vivid; clear; brilliant |
| 杖 | つえ | tsue | cane |
| 期 | き | ki | period; time |
| 同志 | どうし | dōshi | same mind; comrade; kindred soul |
| 或いは | あるいは | aruiha | or; possibly |
| 装飾 | そうしょく | sōshoku | ornament |
| 気まぐれ | きまぐれ | kimagure | whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper |
| 然し | しかし | shikashi | however; but |
| 引っ掻く | ひっかく | hikkaku | to scratch |
| 著しい | いちじるしい | ichijirushii | remarkable; considerable |
| 目論見 | もくろみ | mokuromi | a plan; a scheme; a project; a program; intention; goal |
| ミセス | — | misesu | Mrs. |
| 結び付ける | むすびつける | musubitsukeru | to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot |
| 座談会 | ざだんかい | zadankai | symposium; round-table discussion |
| 軽快 | けいかい | keikai | rhythmical (e.g. melody); casual (e.g. dress); light; nimble |
| 猛烈 | もうれつ | mōretsu | violent; vehement; rage |
| 近付く | ちかづく | chikazuku | to approach; to get near; to get acquainted with; to get closer |
| 体裁 | ていさい | teisai | decency; style; form; appearance; show; get-up; format |
| 短波 | たんぱ | tanpa | short wave |
| お願いします | おねがいします | onegaishimasu | please |
| 参議院 | さんぎいん | sangiin | House of Councillors |
| 曲がる | まがる | magaru | to turn; to bend |
| 銃 | つつ | tsutsu | gun |
| 目覚しい | めざましい | mezamashii | brilliant; splendid; striking; remarkable |
| 軒並み | のきなみ | nokinami | row of houses |
| 居住 | きょじゅう | kyojū | residence |
| ばてる | — | bateru | to be exhausted; to be worn out |
| 浸す | ひたす | hitasu | to soak; to dip; to drench |
| 即ち | すなわち | sunawachi | that is; namely; i.e. |
| 内陸 | ないりく | nairiku | inland |
| 準急 | じゅんきゅう | junkyū | local express (train slower than an express) |
| 突如 | とつじょ | totsujo | suddenly; all of a sudden |
| 今日は | こんにちは | konnichiha | hello; good day (daytime greeting id) |
| 限定 | げんてい | gentei | limit; restriction |
| 割り当て | わりあて | wariate | allotment; assignment; allocation; quota; rationing |
| 委託 | いたく | itaku | consign (goods (for sale) to a firm); entrust (person with something); commit |
| 終日 | しゅうじつ | shūjitsu | all day |
| 年寄り | としより | toshiyori | old people; the aged |
| 象 | しょう | shō | phenomenon |
| 戸籍 | こせき | koseki | census; family register |
| 済まない | すまない | sumanai | sorry (phrase) |
| 何と | なんと | nanto | what; how; whatever |
| 回収 | かいしゅう | kaishū | collection; recovery |
| 夜更け | よふけ | yofuke | late at night |
| 格差 | かくさ | kakusa | qualitative difference; disparity |
| 以て | もって | motte | with; by; by means of; because; in view of |
| 失格 | しっかく | shikkaku | disqualification; elimination; incapacity (legal) |
| 碑 | いしぶみ | ishibumi | stone monument bearing an inscription |
| 否決 | ひけつ | hiketsu | rejection; negation; voting down |
| 例え | たとえ | tatoe | example; even if; if; though; although |
| 引き起こす | ひきおこす | hikiokosu | to cause |
| 類似 | るいじ | ruiji | analogous |
| 況して | まして | mashite | still more; still less (with neg. verb); to say nothing of; not to mention |
| 震わせる | ふるわせる | furuwaseru | to be shaking; to be trembling |
| サンキュー | — | sankyū | thank you |
| 真下 | ました | mashita | right under; directly below |
| 佐 | さ | sa | help |
| すれ違う | すれちがう | surechigau | to pass by one another; to disagree; to miss each other |
| 過ち | あやまち | ayamachi | fault; error; indiscretion |
| 株式 | かぶしき | kabushiki | stock (company) |
| 煙草 | たばこ | tabako | (pt:) (n) (uk) tobacco (pt: tabaco); cigarettes |
| 小切手 | こぎって | kogitte | cheque; check |
| 暦 | こよみ | koyomi | calendar; almanac |
| 国連 | こくれん | kokuren | U.N.; United Nations |
| 惨め | みじめ | mijime | miserable |
| 市 | いち | ichi | market; fair |
| 答え | こたえ | kotae | answer; response |
| 引き分け | ひきわけ | hikiwake | a draw (in competition); tie game |
| 延べ | のべ | nobe | futures; credit (buying); stretching; total |
| 中程 | なかほど | nakahodo | middle; midway |
| 手引き | てびき | tebiki | guidance; guide; introduction |
| 白状 | はくじょう | hakujō | confession |
| 送金 | そうきん | sōkin | remittance; sending money |
| 脅す | おどす | odosu | to threaten; to menace |
| 略語 | りゃくご | ryakugo | abbreviation; acronym |
| 国防 | こくぼう | kokubō | national defence |
| すんなり | — | sunnari | pass with no objection; slim; slender |
| 膨れる | ふくれる | fukureru | to get cross; to get sulky; to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to distend; to bulge |
| 起伏 | きふく | kifuku | undulation |
| 防衛 | ぼうえい | bōei | defense; protection; self-defense |
| 南 | なん | nan | south |
| 織る | おる | oru | to weave |
| 模索 | もさく | mosaku | groping (for) |
| 頃 | けい | kei | time; about; toward; approximately (time) |
| 学士 | がくし | gakushi | university graduate |
| 屹度 | きっと | kitto | 1. (uk) surely; undoubtedly; certainly; without fail; 2. sternly; severely |
| 公募 | こうぼ | kōbo | public appeal; public contribution |
| 慕う | したう | shitau | to yearn for; to miss; to adore; to love dearly |
| 高尚 | こうしょう | kōshō | high; noble; refined; advanced |
| 其れ | それ | sore | it; that |
| 紛争 | ふんそう | funsō | dispute; trouble; strife |
| 心得 | こころえ | kokoroe | knowledge; information |
| 発生 | はっせい | hassei | outbreak; spring forth; occurrence; incidence; origin |
| 矢鱈に | やたらに | yatarani | randomly; recklessly; blindly |
| 結び | むすび | musubi | ending; conclusion; union |
| 入口 | いりくち | irikuchi | entrance; gate; approach; mouth |
| 幾多 | いくた | ikuta | many; numerous |
| 取り次ぐ | とりつぐ | toritsugu | to act as an agent for; to announce (someone); to convey (a message) |
| 愈々 | いよいよ | iyoiyo | more and more; all the more; increasingly; at last; beyond doubt |
| ぐらい | — | gurai | approximately |
| 持てる | もてる | moteru | to be well liked; to be popular |
| 密か | ひそか | hisoka | secret; private; surreptitious |
| 有望 | ゆうぼう | yūbō | good prospects; full of hope; promising |
| 招き | まねき | maneki | invitation |
| 弄る | いじる | ijiru | to touch; to tamper with |
| 業務 | ぎょうむ | gyōmu | business; affairs; duties; work |
| 束の間 | つかのま | tsukanoma | moment; brief time; brief; transient |
| 領地 | りょうち | ryōchi | territory; dominion |
| 原則 | げんそく | gensoku | principle; general rule |
| 偽造 | ぎぞう | gizō | forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting |
| 振り | ふり | furi | pretence; show; appearance |
| クイズ | — | kuizu | quiz |
| サイズ | — | saizu | size |
| 客観 | きゃっかん | kyakkan | objective |
| 生臭い | なまぐさい | namagusai | smelling of fish or blood; fish or meat |
| 寛容 | かんよう | kan'yō | forbearance; tolerance; generosity |
| 一部分 | いちぶぶん | ichibubun | a part |
| 特集 | とくしゅう | tokushū | feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report |
| 水源 | すいげん | suigen | source of river; fountainhead |
| 語源 | ごげん | gogen | word root; word derivation; etymology |
| 釣鐘 | つりがね | tsurigane | hanging bell |
| 既婚 | きこん | kikon | marriage; married |
| 位地 | いち | ichi | place; situation; position; location |
| 征服 | せいふく | seifuku | conquest; subjugation; overcoming |
| 所謂 | いわゆる | iwayuru | the so-called; so to speak |
| 従事 | じゅうじ | jūji | engaging; pursuing; following |
| 本文 | ほんぶん | honbun | text (of document); body (of letter) |
| 舗装 | ほそう | hosō | pavement; road surface |
| 補足 | ほそく | hosoku | supplement; complement |
| 強気 | ごうぎ | gōgi | great; grand |
| 何故なら | なぜなら | nazenara | because |
| ティッシュペーパー | — | tisshupēpā | tissue paper |
| 損失 | そんしつ | sonshitsu | loss |
| 強いる | しいる | shiiru | to force; to compel; to coerce |
| 公用 | こうよう | kōyō | government business; public use; public expense |
| 文語 | ぶんご | bungo | written language; literary language |
| 追放 | ついほう | tsuihō | exile; banishment |
| 船舶 | せんぱく | senpaku | ship |
| 填める | はめる | hameru | to get in; to insert; to put on; to make love |
| 公立 | こうりつ | kōritsu | public (institution) |
| 朽ちる | くちる | kuchiru | to rot |
| 隔たる | へだたる | hedataru | to be distant |
| 行き成り | いきなり | ikinari | suddenly |
| 兵士 | へいし | heishi | soldier |
| 構想 | こうそう | kōsō | plan; plot; idea; conception |
| 滑らか | なめらか | nameraka | smoothness; glassiness |
| 侵す | おかす | okasu | to invade; to raid; to trespass; to violate; to intrude on |
| 取り戻す | とりもどす | torimodosu | to take back; to regain |
| 同い年 | おないどし | onaidoshi | of the same age |
| 人目 | じんもく | jinmoku | glimpse; public gaze |
| 高まる | たかまる | takamaru | to rise; to swell; to be promoted |
| 加工 | かこう | kakō | manufacturing; processing; treatment |
| 異論 | いろん | iron | different opinion; objection |
| 滲む | にじむ | nijimu | to run; to blur; to spread; to blot; to ooze |
| 運賃 | うんちん | unchin | freight rates; shipping expenses; fare |
| 貝殻 | かいがら | kaigara | shell |
| 其処 | そこ | soko | that place; there |
| 担架 | たんか | tanka | stretcher; litter |
| 床 | とこ | toko | bed; sickbed; alcove; padding |
| 真に | まことに | makotoni | truly; actually; really |
| 改定 | かいてい | kaitei | reform |
| 借り | かり | kari | borrowing; debt; loan |
| 旅券 | りょけん | ryoken | passport |
| 押さえる | おさえる | osaeru | to stop; to restrain; to seize; to repress; to suppress; to press down |
| 再発 | さいはつ | saihatsu | return; relapse; reoccurrence |
| タイピスト | — | taipisuto | typist |