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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feather, plume, down; wing; blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.); shuttlecock (in badminton); shuttlecock (in hanetsuki); arrow feathers; fifth degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)
lovely, sweet, pretty, cute, adorable
to untie, to unfasten, to unwrap, to undo, to unbind, to unpack; to unsew, to unstitch; to solve, to work out, to answer; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.), to clear up, to remove (suspicion), to appease; to dissolve (a contract), to cancel, to remove (a prohibition), to lift (a ban), to raise (a siege); to release (from duty), to relieve, to dismiss; to comb (out), to card, to untangle (hair)
to be solved, to be worked out; to come loose, to come untied, to come undone; to be removed (of restrictions), to be lifted (e.g. of a ban), to be broken (of a spell, curse, etc.); to dissipate (of anger, tension, etc.), to melt away, to ease, to be allayed, to be appeased, to be resolved (of a dispute, misunderstanding, etc.), to be cleared up
injury, wound; mistake, accident, loss
ash, ashes
forehead, brow
intolerable, unbearable, unendurable; irresistible, tremendous, out of this world; cannot help (doing), cannot but do, anxious to do, cannot get enough of
time, pause; space; room
circle; entirety, whole, full, complete; money, dough, moola; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle; suffix for ship names, suffix for names of people (esp. infants), suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc., suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
as if, as though, just like, much as, exactly like, as it were; (not) at all, (not) in the slightest, (not) a bit; really, completely, entirely, wholly, truly, quite
happy, glad, pleased, delighted, overjoyed; joyful, delightful, gratifying, pleasant
to shine, to sparkle, to twinkle, to glitter, to glisten; to light up (with happiness, hope, etc.), to beam, to gleam, to glow
good, OK, all right, fine, very well, will do, may, can
well, properly, suitably; best regards, please remember me, please treat me favorably (favourably), please take care of, please do; just like ..., as though one were ...; by all means, of course
to stuff into, to jam, to cram, to pack, to fill, to plug, to stop up; to shorten, to move closer together; to reduce (spending), to conserve; to focus intently on, to strain oneself to do; to go through thoroughly, to work out (details), to bring to a conclusion, to wind up; to be on duty, to be stationed; to corner (esp. an opponent's king in shogi), to trap, to checkmate; to cut off (one's finger as an act of apology), to catch (one's finger in a door, etc.); to do non-stop, to do continuously, to keep doing (without a break); to do completely, to do thoroughly; to force someone into a difficult situation by ...
to want, to wish for; to request, to demand, to require, to ask for; to seek, to search for, to look for, to pursue (pleasure), to hunt (a job), to find (a solution); to purchase, to buy
old, former, ex-; the old, old things, old customs; old times, bygone days; Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar
a little, a few, small, slight, trifling, meagre, meager, narrow (margin); only, just, merely, no more than
lately, recently, nowadays; terribly, awfully, extremely
gold (metal); gold (color); gold (medal), first place (prize); something of great value, something golden (e.g. silence); money, gold coin; sum (of money); Friday; karat (measure of purity of gold), carat; metal (fourth phase of Wu Xing); Jin dynasty (of China; 1115-1234), Chin dynasty, Jurchen dynasty; gold general; testicles