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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 世界 |
せかい |
(n) the world; society; the universe |
79 |
| 話 |
はなし |
(io) (n) talk; speech; chat; story; conversation |
133 |
| 世 |
よ |
(n) world; society; age; generation |
183 |
| 世紀 |
せいき |
(n) century; era |
258 |
| 電話 |
でんわ |
(n,vs) telephone |
479 |
| 会話 |
かいわ |
(n) conversation |
1388 |
| 話題 |
わだい |
(n) topic; subject |
1694 |
| 神話 |
しんわ |
(n) myth; legend |
1879 |
| 世代 |
せだい |
(n) generation; the world; the age |
1971 |
| 話す |
はなす |
(v5s) to speak |
2513 |
| 中世 |
ちゅうせい |
(n-adv,n-t) Middle Ages; mediaeval times |
2653 |
| 世帯 |
せたい |
(n) household |
3167 |
| 世界中 |
せかいじゅう |
(n) around or throughout the world |
4067 |
| 逸話 |
いつわ |
(n) anecdote |
4434 |
| 世間 |
せけん |
(n) world; society |
5046 |
| 対話 |
たいわ |
(n,vs) interactive; interaction; conversation; dialogue |
5098 |
| 近世 |
きんせい |
(n) recent times |
5414 |
| 後世 |
こうせい |
(n-adv,n) posterity; future life; life to come |
5583 |
| 世界一 |
せかいいち |
(n-adv,n-t) best in the world |
5806 |
| 通話 |
つうわ |
(n,vs) (1) telephone call; talking; calling; (2) counter for telephone calls |
6174 |
| 治世 |
ちせい |
(n) rule; reign; peaceful times; regime; dynasty |
6652 |
| 童話 |
どうわ |
(n) fairy tale |
6867 |
| 出世 |
しゅっせ |
(n) promotion; successful career; eminence |
7201 |
| 世話 |
せわ |
(n,vs) looking after; help; aid; assistance |
7596 |
| 世論 |
せろん |
(n) public opinion |
7756 |
| 世論 |
よろん |
(n) public opinion |
7756 |
| 次世代 |
じせだい |
(n) next (future) generation |
7841 |
| 話者 |
わしゃ |
(n) narrator; speaker |
8143 |
| 世襲 |
せしゅう |
(n) heredity; heritage |
8490 |
| 手話 |
しゅわ |
(n) sign language |
9412 |
| 創世 |
そうせい |
(n) creation of world |
9598 |
| 説話 |
せつわ |
(n) tale; narrative |
9940 |
| 早世 |
そうせい |
(n) dying young; early death |
10427 |
| 世俗 |
せぞく |
(n) common customs; worldliness; vulgar; popular; the world; the common people |
10821 |
| 電話機 |
でんわき |
(n) telephone instrument |
10883 |
| 英会話 |
えいかいわ |
(n) (1) English conversation; (2) school for English conversation (abbr) |
11461 |
| 救世主 |
きゅうせいしゅ |
(n) saviour; messiah |
11643 |
| 世の中 |
よのなか |
(n) society; the world; the times |
11902 |
| 話し合い |
はなしあい |
(n) discussion; conference |
12021 |
| 話せる |
はなせる |
(v1) to be understanding; to be sensible |
12434 |
| 話し合う |
はなしあう |
(v5u) to discuss; to talk together |
12877 |
| 談話 |
だんわ |
(n) a talk; conversation |
13109 |
| 浮世絵 |
うきよえ |
(n) ukiyoe (color print of everyday life in Edo period) |
13381 |
| 一世 |
いっせ |
(n) a lifetime; a generation; foreign immigrant; Japanese immigrant to USA |
14342 |
| 一世 |
いっせい |
(n) a lifetime; a generation; foreign immigrant; Japanese immigrant to USA |
14342 |
| 民話 |
みんわ |
(n) folklore |
14342 |
| 前世 |
ぜんせ |
(n) previous existence |
14921 |
| 前世 |
ぜんせい |
(n) antiquity; the previous era |
14921 |
| 救世 |
きゅうせい |
(n) salvation |
15061 |
| 現世 |
げんせ |
(n) present (transient) world (Buddhism); the present age; life |
15294 |
| 現世 |
げんせい |
(n) present (transient) world (Buddhism); the present age; life |
15294 |
| 現世 |
げんぜ |
(n) present (transient) world (Buddhism); the present age; life |
15294 |
| 話しかける |
はなしかける |
(v1) to accost a person; to talk (to someone) |
15595 |
| 世相 |
せそう |
(n) (1) phase of life; sign of the times; (2) world (social) conditions; society |
15609 |
| 世子 |
せいし |
(n) heir; successor |
15771 |
| 永世 |
えいせい |
(n) eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence |
16546 |
| 昔話 |
むかしばなし |
(n) folklore; legend |
16683 |
| 実話 |
じつわ |
(n) true story |
16902 |
| 裏話 |
うらばなし |
(n) story not generally known; inside story; the real story (behind ...) |
17389 |
| 秘話 |
ひわ |
(n) secret story; unknown episode |
17885 |
| 夜話 |
やわ |
(n) night talks; evening tea parties |
18267 |
| 夜話 |
よばなし |
(n) night talks; evening tea parties |
18267 |
| 話し方 |
はなしかた |
(n) way of talking |
19107 |
| 世界銀行 |
せかいぎんこう |
World Bank |
19922 |
| 寓話 |
ぐうわ |
(n) allegory |
20004 |
| 話術 |
わじゅつ |
(n) art of conversation |
20087 |
| 辞世 |
じせい |
(n) passing away; death; death poem |
20588 |
| 浮世 |
うきよ |
(n) fleeting life; this transient world; sad world |
20588 |
| 見世物 |
みせもの |
(n) a show |
22113 |
| おとぎ話 |
おとぎばなし |
(n) fairy tale |
22687 |
| 世辞 |
せじ |
(n) flattery; compliment |
22687 |
| 乱世 |
らんせい |
(n) troubled times; turbulent times |
22804 |
| 講話 |
こうわ |
(n) lecture; discourse |
22948 |
| あの世 |
あのよ |
(n) the other world; world of the dead |
23038 |
| 世話人 |
せわにん |
(n) sponsor; manager; go-between; mediator; agent |
23399 |
| 世話人 |
せわびと |
(n) sponsor; manager; go-between; mediator; agent |
23399 |
| 懇話 |
こんわ |
(n) friendly (familiar) chat (talk) |
24154 |
| 今世紀 |
こんせいき |
(n) this century |
24495 |
| 月世界 |
げっせかい |
(n) moon; lunar world |
24627 |
| 世直し |
よなおし |
(n) world reformation |
25224 |
| 話し言葉 |
はなしことば |
(n) spoken word |
25224 |
| 来世 |
らいせ |
(n) the next world; the future; posterity |
25358 |
| 来世 |
らいせい |
(n) the next world; the future; posterity |
25358 |
| 話し手 |
はなして |
(n) speaker |
25358 |
| 腹話術 |
ふくわじゅつ |
(n) ventriloquism |
25491 |
| 在世 |
ざいせい |
(n) being alive; living |
25705 |
| 世継ぎ |
よつぎ |
(n) heir; successor |
25918 |
| 絶世 |
ぜっせい |
(adj-no,n) peerless; unequaled; matchless |
26001 |
| 挿話 |
そうわ |
(n) episode |
26240 |
| 四半世紀 |
しはんせいき |
(n) quarter of a century |
26730 |
| 官話 |
かんわ |
(n) the Mandarin language |
26817 |
| 発話 |
はつわ |
(n) utterance |
26991 |
| 受話器 |
じゅわき |
(n) (telephone) receiver |
27058 |
| 万世 |
ばんせい |
(n-adv) all ages; eternity |
27433 |
| 万世 |
よろずよ |
(n-adv,n-t) thousands of years; eternity; all generations |
27433 |
| 作り話 |
つくりばなし |
(n) fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth |
27703 |
| 別世界 |
べっせかい |
(n) another world |
27901 |
| 世情 |
せじょう |
(n) the ways of the world; human nature |
28300 |
| 笑い話 |
わらいばなし |
(n) funny story |
28975 |
| 常世 |
とこよ |
(n) distant |
28975 |
| 当世 |
とうせい |
(n-adv,n-t) present-day; nowadays |
29086 |
| 話芸 |
わげい |
(n) (the art of) storytelling |
29086 |
| 渡世人 |
とせいにん |
(n) gambler |
29632 |
| 白話 |
はくわ |
(n) colloquial Chinese |
29632 |
| 話法 |
わほう |
(n) narration |
29632 |
| 情話 |
じょうわ |
(n) conversing from the heart; love story |
29851 |
| 三世 |
さんせい |
children of nisei; 3rd generation in US |
29962 |
| 三世 |
さんぜ |
(n) past and present and future existences |
29962 |
| 浮世草子 |
うきよぞうし |
(n) (Edo-period variety of) realistic literature |
30195 |
| 話し掛ける |
はなしかける |
(v1) to accost a person; to talk (to someone) |
30308 |
| 経世 |
けいせい |
(n) administration; government; conduct of state affairs |
30552 |
| 渡世 |
とせい |
(n) livelihood; subsistence; business |
30552 |
| 厭世 |
えんせい |
(n) pessimism; weariness with life |
30832 |
| 世人 |
せじん |
(n) the people; the public; the world |
31368 |
| 国際電信電話 |
こくさいでんしんでんわ |
KDD; Japanese international telecommunications company |
31527 |
| 小話 |
こばなし |
(n) (1) anecdote; (2) brief (comic) story |
31648 |
| 小話 |
しょうわ |
(n) (1) anecdote; (2) brief (comic) story |
31648 |
| 立身出世 |
りっしんしゅっせ |
(n) success in life |
31648 |
| 処世 |
しょせい |
(n) conduct |
31784 |
| 上世 |
かみつよ |
(n) antiquity; ancient times |
32076 |
| 上世 |
じょうせい |
(n) antiquity; ancient times |
32076 |
| 茶話 |
さわ |
(n) a chat over tea |
32076 |
| 茶話 |
ちゃばなし |
(n) a chat over tea |
32076 |
| 茶話 |
ちゃわ |
(n) a chat over tea |
32076 |
| 仲見世 |
なかみせ |
(n) nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine |
32361 |
| 世渡り |
よわたり |
(n) making a living; getting on in the world; subsistence |
32501 |
| 隔世 |
かくせい |
(n) previous age |
32648 |
| 俗世 |
ぞくせい |
(n) this world; earthly life |
32648 |
| 世評 |
せひょう |
(n) reputation; public opinion |
32784 |
| 御世 |
みよ |
(n) imperial reign |
33282 |
| 不世出 |
ふせいしゅつ |
(n) rare; extraordinary; unparalleled |
33282 |
| 法話 |
ほうわ |
(n) Buddhist sermon |
33636 |
| 世間体 |
せけんてい |
(n) appearance (in the eyes of society); decency |
34034 |
| 世話好き |
せわずき |
(adj-na,n) obliging person |
34034 |
| 話し相手 |
はなしあいて |
(n) person with whom to speak; advisor |
34212 |
| 世話焼き |
せわやき |
(n) a bother; a meddlesome person |
34381 |
| 送話 |
そうわ |
(n) (telephonic) transmission |
34761 |
| 世上 |
せじょう |
(n) the world |
35139 |
| 俗世間 |
ぞくせけん |
(n) the workaday world |
35139 |
| 三千世界 |
さんぜんせかい |
(n) the whole world; the universe |
35357 |
| 世話物 |
せわもの |
(n) play dealing with the lives of ordinary people |
35357 |
| 観世音 |
かんぜおん |
(n) Avalokitesvara (bodhisattva of mercy and salvation); Kwannon; Kuan Yin |
35577 |
| 笑話 |
しょうわ |
(n) amusing story |
35577 |
| 出世魚 |
しゅっせうお |
(n) fish that are called by different names as they grow larger |
36169 |
| 別れ話 |
わかればなし |
(n) talk about divorce or separation |
36396 |
| 訓話 |
くんわ |
(n) exemplum; apologue |
36620 |
| 千世 |
ちよ |
(n) (1) thousand years; (2) very long period; forever |
36620 |
| 長電話 |
ながでんわ |
(n) long telephone conversation |
36620 |
| 長話 |
ながばなし |
(n) long talk |
36884 |
| 下世話 |
げせわ |
(n) common saying; common phrase |
37130 |