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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 世界 |
せかい |
(n) the world; society; the universe |
79 |
| 歴史 |
れきし |
(n) history |
155 |
| 世 |
よ |
(n) world; society; age; generation |
183 |
| 世紀 |
せいき |
(n) century; era |
258 |
| 史上 |
しじょう |
(adj-no,n-adv,n-t) historical |
1673 |
| 境界 |
きょうかい |
(n) boundary |
1751 |
| 世代 |
せだい |
(n) generation; the world; the age |
1971 |
| 業界 |
ぎょうかい |
(n) industry; business |
2613 |
| 中世 |
ちゅうせい |
(n-adv,n-t) Middle Ages; mediaeval times |
2653 |
| 世帯 |
せたい |
(n) household |
3167 |
| 限界 |
げんかい |
(n) limit; bound |
3876 |
| 史跡 |
しせき |
(n) historical landmark |
3982 |
| 世界中 |
せかいじゅう |
(n) around or throughout the world |
4067 |
| 史料 |
しりょう |
(n) historical records |
4735 |
| 世間 |
せけん |
(n) world; society |
5046 |
| 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 |
| 魔界 |
まかい |
(n) world of spirits; hell |
6030 |
| 治世 |
ちせい |
(n) rule; reign; peaceful times; regime; dynasty |
6652 |
| 政界 |
せいかい |
(n) political world |
6902 |
| 出世 |
しゅっせ |
(n) promotion; successful career; eminence |
7201 |
| 史実 |
しじつ |
(n) historical fact |
7543 |
| 世話 |
せわ |
(n,vs) looking after; help; aid; assistance |
7596 |
| 正史 |
せいし |
(n) authentic history |
7611 |
| 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 |
| 世襲 |
せしゅう |
(n) heredity; heritage |
8490 |
| 国史 |
こくし |
(n) history of a nation; Japanese history |
9390 |
| 創世 |
そうせい |
(n) creation of world |
9598 |
| 史学 |
しがく |
(n) study of history |
10102 |
| 早世 |
そうせい |
(n) dying young; early death |
10427 |
| 視界 |
しかい |
(n) field of vision |
10449 |
| 世俗 |
せぞく |
(n) common customs; worldliness; vulgar; popular; the world; the common people |
10821 |
| 他界 |
たかい |
(n,vs) death; the next world |
10866 |
| 球界 |
きゅうかい |
(n) the baseball world |
11023 |
| 史家 |
しか |
(n) historian |
11406 |
| 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 |
| 財界 |
ざいかい |
(n) financial world |
12116 |
| 臨界 |
りんかい |
(n) critical (pressure, temperature, state, point) |
12861 |
| 史観 |
しかん |
(n) historical view |
13167 |
| 戦史 |
せんし |
(n) military history or annals |
13250 |
| 浮世絵 |
うきよえ |
(n) ukiyoe (color print of everyday life in Edo period) |
13381 |
| 史書 |
ししょ |
(n) history book |
13955 |
| 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 |
| 動物界 |
どうぶつかい |
(n) animal kingdom |
14569 |
| 前世 |
ぜんせ |
(n) previous existence |
14921 |
| 前世 |
ぜんせい |
(n) antiquity; the previous era |
14921 |
| 界隈 |
かいわい |
(n) neighborhood |
15005 |
| 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 |
| 世相 |
せそう |
(n) (1) phase of life; sign of the times; (2) world (social) conditions; society |
15609 |
| 界面 |
かいめん |
(n) interface |
15679 |
| 学界 |
がっかい |
(n) academic or scientific world |
15754 |
| 世子 |
せいし |
(n) heir; successor |
15771 |
| 冥界 |
めいかい |
(n) hades; realm of the dead |
16091 |
| 先史 |
せんし |
(n) prehistory |
16294 |
| 永世 |
えいせい |
(n) eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence |
16546 |
| 外界 |
がいかい |
(n) physical world; the externals |
17231 |
| 外界 |
げかい |
(n) physical world; the externals |
17231 |
| 各界 |
かくかい |
(n) each field; various circles |
17484 |
| 各界 |
かっかい |
(n) each field; various circles |
17484 |
| 霊界 |
れいかい |
(n) the spiritual world |
17810 |
| 電界 |
でんかい |
(n) electric field |
17994 |
| 前史 |
ぜんし |
(n) prehistory |
18406 |
| 磁界 |
じかい |
(n) magnetic field |
18869 |
| 有史 |
ゆうし |
(n) recorded in history; historical |
19579 |
| 世界銀行 |
せかいぎんこう |
World Bank |
19922 |
| 辞世 |
じせい |
(n) passing away; death; death poem |
20588 |
| 租界 |
そかい |
(n) concession; settlement |
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 |
| 秘史 |
ひし |
(n) hidden or secret history |
22305 |
| 世辞 |
せじ |
(n) flattery; compliment |
22687 |
| 乱世 |
らんせい |
(n) troubled times; turbulent times |
22804 |
| あの世 |
あのよ |
(n) the other world; world of the dead |
23038 |
| 角界 |
かくかい |
(n) the world of Sumo |
23235 |
| 角界 |
かっかい |
(n) the world of Sumo |
23235 |
| 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 |
| 通史 |
つうし |
(n) overview of history |
23966 |
| 今世紀 |
こんせいき |
(n) this century |
24495 |
| 古史 |
こし |
(n) ancient history |
24551 |
| 月世界 |
げっせかい |
(n) moon; lunar world |
24627 |
| 女史 |
じょし |
(n) Ms. |
24777 |
| 小史 |
しょうし |
(n) short or concise history |
24980 |
| 世直し |
よなおし |
(n) world reformation |
25224 |
| 史的 |
してき |
(adj-na,n) historic; historical |
25286 |
| 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 |
| 仙界 |
せんかい |
(n) dwelling place of hermits; pure land away from the world |
25554 |
| 在世 |
ざいせい |
(n) being alive; living |
25705 |
| 外史 |
がいし |
(n) unofficial history |
25767 |
| 三界 |
さんがい |
(n) past, present and future existences |
25918 |
| 世継ぎ |
よつぎ |
(n) heir; successor |
25918 |
| 分界 |
ぶんかい |
(n) demarcation |
25918 |
| 絶世 |
ぜっせい |
(adj-no,n) peerless; unequaled; matchless |
26001 |
| 下界 |
かかい |
(n) lower bound |
26157 |
| 下界 |
げかい |
(n) this world; the earth; hades; the nether world |
26157 |
| 官界 |
かんかい |
(n) bureaucracy |
26494 |
| 四半世紀 |
しはんせいき |
(n) quarter of a century |
26730 |
| 史論 |
しろん |
(n) historical treatise; historical discussion |
26817 |
| 法曹界 |
ほうそうかい |
(n) legal circles |
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 |
| 別世界 |
べっせかい |
(n) another world |
27901 |
| 法界 |
ほっかい |
(n) (Buddhism) the universe |
28200 |
| 世情 |
せじょう |
(n) the ways of the world; human nature |
28300 |
| 常世 |
とこよ |
(n) distant |
28975 |
| 当世 |
とうせい |
(n-adv,n-t) present-day; nowadays |
29086 |
| 渡世人 |
とせいにん |
(n) gambler |
29632 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 修史 |
しゅうし |
(n) compilation of a history |
31224 |
| 史蹟 |
しせき |
(n) historical landmark |
31368 |
| 世人 |
せじん |
(n) the people; the public; the world |
31368 |
| 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 |
| 棋界 |
きかい |
(n) the go (shogi) world; shogi circles |
31930 |
| 史伝 |
しでん |
(n) history and biography; historical material |
32076 |
| 上世 |
かみつよ |
(n) antiquity; ancient times |
32076 |
| 上世 |
じょうせい |
(n) antiquity; ancient times |
32076 |
| 史劇 |
しげき |
(n) historical drama |
32361 |
| 仲見世 |
なかみせ |
(n) nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine |
32361 |
| 幽界 |
ゆうかい |
(n) hades; realm of the dead |
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 |
| 史談 |
しだん |
(n) historical story |
33111 |
| 御世 |
みよ |
(n) imperial reign |
33282 |
| 不世出 |
ふせいしゅつ |
(n) rare; extraordinary; unparalleled |
33282 |
| 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 |
| 世話焼き |
せわやき |
(n) a bother; a meddlesome person |
34381 |
| 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 |
| 出世魚 |
しゅっせうお |
(n) fish that are called by different names as they grow larger |
36169 |