JLPT Vocabulary
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Master essential Japanese words organized by JLPT level. Each entry includes readings, meanings, and example sentences to help you learn effectively.
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to touch, to come in contact with, to border on, to adjoin, to be adjacent, to be close; to receive (e.g. visitor), to attend to, to serve, to take care of, to look after, to act towards, to deal with, to see; to receive (news), to get, to hear; to encounter, to come across; to be tangent to; to make touch, to bring into contact with, to bring adjacent to, to bring close, to connect
railway track, railway line, railroad, railway, track, line
difference, discrepancy, variation
waterfall; rapids
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods), medieval times, mediaeval times
list price, regular price, established price
marks, points, score, grade, runs (baseball); number of items, number of articles
letter (e.g. of complaint), letter to the editor, letter from a reader; contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
children's story, fairy tale
date and time (of a meeting, departure, etc.); days and hours
cover (of a book, magazine, etc.), binding; to appear on the cover of a magazine
to tell (a story), to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.), to relate, to recount; to tell of, to show, to indicate, to prove, to attest to
kitchen knife; cooking, food
masterpiece, masterwork
business card
duty, role, function
medicine, drug; chemical (agent), chemicals
grain, bead, drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
freezing, cold storage, refrigeration
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
separate, respective, different