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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effect, efficacy, validity, potency
excuse, pretext
filial piety; showing devotion (to someone)
marking, grading, scoring
triangle, triangular shape
care, looking after, repair, maintenance, tending, trimming, grooming; (police) raid, crackdown
going in and out, entering and exiting; visiting regularly, frequenting, having regular dealings with; income and expenditure, incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease, surplus and deficit, fluctuation; fight, trouble, quarrel, dispute; indentations (e.g. of a coastline)
pocket money, spending money, pin money, allowance
lip, lips
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone), to have an eye on, to plan to make one's own; to aim for, to set up as a goal
funeral
title, caption, heading
excess, surplus, exceeding (a limit, estimate, etc.), going over
passage, pathway, roadway, avenue, aisle
theft, robbery
(mountain) pass, highest point on a mountain road, ridge; peak (e.g. of summer), worst (e.g. of an illness), crisis, critical point, most difficult part
radius
distribution
telescope
sumi, India ink, Chinese ink, ink stick, ink-cake; squid ink, octopus ink; carpenter's inking string
the number of flat things; win-loss difference which influences the ranking of wrestlers