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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advantageous, favourable, better, stronger; profitable, lucrative, gainful, paying
joy, delight, rapture, pleasure, gratification, rejoicing, congratulations, felicitations
win, victory
food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat), provisions, rations, food supply
house, home; one's house, one's home; one's husband
curtain; act (in a play); falling of the curtain, end (of a scene); end, close; case, occasion, role (to play), part, place; makuuchi, top division
prediction, estimation
in succession, one by one
king, ruler, sovereign, monarch; tycoon, magnate, champion, master; king (of the senior player)
poem, poetry, verse; Chinese poem
abnormal, unusual, extraordinary, remarkable, uncommon
a kind, a sort, a variety, a species; of sorts, something of a, a sort of; sort of, somewhat
retirement
yen (currency of Japan); circle
acting, performance
something, something or other, so-and-so; somehow, anyhow, one way or another
conflagration, fire
painter, artist
accounting, finance, account, reckoning; bill (at a restaurant), check; accountant, treasurer, paymaster, cashier; settlement (of a bill, fee, etc.), payment; economic condition
interpretation, explanation, reading, construction
sweat, perspiration; moisture, condensation; gulp, oops