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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accommodation, taking in, receiving, housing, seating, admission (of patients, students, etc.); imprisonment, detention, internment; containing (e.g. words in a dictionary), adding
(surprise) attack, assault, raid, charge
encouragement, promotion, inducement, incitement, stimulation
illumination, lighting
rise, increase, ascent; income, takings, earnings, proceeds, (crop) yield, return, profit; completion, end, finish; end result (e.g. of crafts), how something comes out, finish; finishing (in a board or card game, etc.); green tea (esp. in a sushi restaurant); after (rain, illness, etc.); ex- (e.g. ex-bureaucrat), former
landing, going ashore, disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon), striking land, hitting land
passion, enthusiasm, zeal
uniform
regular, normal, formal, legal, established, legitimate
(financial) settlement, squaring accounts, clearing debts; liquidation; ending (a relationship), breaking up (with), burying (the past), redeeming (one's faults)
vessel, ship, shipping, seacraft
hell realm, Naraka; Hell; hell, misery, nightmare, inferno; place where a volcano or hot springs constantly spew smoke or steam
landing, alighting, touch down
cooking, food preparation
legend, folklore, tradition
regulation, control
patent; special permission, license, licence, concession, charter
red or gold circle representing the Sun; national flag of Japan, Japanese flag, Hinomaru; Japan, Japanese government
usually, habitually, always; for a long time
arrangement (of resources), deployment, stationing, posting, disposition, configuration, layout
excavation, exhumation, digging up, unearthing; discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.), finding, unearthing