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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activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.), action, operation; moving picture
patient
environment, surroundings, circumstances
supervision, control, superintendence, direction; director, superintendent, supervisor, coach, foreman, manager, overseer, controller, boss
control, management (e.g. of a business)
concern, interest
relation, connection, relevance
enterprise, business, company, corporation
basics, fundamentals, basis, foundation
period, term, interval
expectation, anticipation, hope; promising, rising, up-and-coming
engine; agency, organisation, organization, institution, organ, body; system, facility, facilities
function, facility, faculty, feature
article, news story, report, account
reporter, journalist
record, document, minutes, log, recording, putting on record, keeping a record (of), writing down; record (e.g. in sports), setting (a record), recording (a record high, etc.)
member of an assembly, member of the Diet, member of parliament, member of Congress
congress, parliament, diet, legislative assembly
chair, chairman, chairperson, speaker (of an assembly), president (of a council, senate, etc.)
professor; teaching, instruction
muscle, tendon, sinew; vein, artery; fiber, fibre, string; line, stripe, streak; reason, logic; plot, storyline; lineage, descent; school (e.g. of scholarship or arts); aptitude, talent; source (of information, etc.), circle, channel; well-informed person (in a transaction); logical move (in go, shogi, etc.); ninth vertical line; seam on a helmet; gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.); social position, status; on (a river, road, etc.), along; counter for long thin things, counter for roads or blocks when giving directions; street (in Osaka); (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)