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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cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
deep; profound; dense, thick; close (relationship); intense, strong; late
to boil, to heat (a liquid), to prepare (a bath, hot drink); to excite, to rouse, to stir
to be helpful, to be useful
to transfer (trains), to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.), to switch (to a different system, method, etc.), to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
to pull out, to take out, to draw out; to lead out (e.g. a horse from a stable), to summon (e.g. to court), to bring (e.g. someone to the negotiating table), to drag; to withdraw (money), to draw; to bring out (talent, potential, beauty, flavour, etc.), to extract (information, the truth, etc.), to get (e.g. an answer out of someone), to obtain (e.g. a result), to elicit, to draw (a conclusion), to derive (e.g. pleasure); to get (money) out of someone, to coax out of someone, to get someone to pay, to make someone produce (funds)
to face; to go towards, to head towards
to part (usu. of people), to part from, to part with, to be apart from; to separate (of a couple), to break up, to divorce; to lose (e.g. one's mother), to be bereaved
to come down, to go down, to fall, to drop, to sink, to get lower; to hang, to dangle; to move back, to step back, to withdraw, to retire; to deteriorate, to fall off, to be downgraded; to get closer to the present day; to play a sagari, to extend downwards
to go out to meet, to receive, to welcome, to greet, to salute, to hail; to call for, to summon, to invite; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family), to take (e.g. a wife); to reach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.), to enter (a new phase, new era, etc.), to approach (e.g. death)
to advance, to go forward; to precede, to go ahead (of); to make progress, to improve; to deepen, to heighten; to be fast (of a clock), to be ahead; to do of one's own free will
right, correct; proper, righteous, just, honest, truthful, lawful
mostly, ordinarily, usually, generally; probably; most, almost all; ordinary; proper, appropriate, moderate
to do
electric light
to grow cold, to get chilly, to cool down
to copy, to duplicate, to reproduce, to trace, to transcribe; to describe, to depict, to portray, to express; to imitate, to model after; to take (a photo), to photograph, to film, to shoot
business, things to do, engagement, errand, affairs
to be heard, to be audible, to reach one's ears; to sound (like), to come across (as); to be well known, to be famous; to accept (someone's words), to agree, to understand
excluding, except (for), apart from, other than, besides, in addition to; outside (a boundary, scope, etc.)
to get better, to get well, to recover (from an illness), to be cured, to be restored, to heal