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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 世界 |
せかい |
(n) the world; society; the universe |
79 |
| 語 |
ご |
(n,n-suf) language; word |
116 |
| 世 |
よ |
(n) world; society; age; generation |
183 |
| 世紀 |
せいき |
(n) century; era |
258 |
| 英語 |
えいご |
(n) the English language |
331 |
| 物語 |
ものがたり |
(n) tale; story; legend |
543 |
| 言語 |
げんご |
(n) language |
607 |
| 日本語 |
にっぽんご |
(n) Japanese language |
685 |
| 日本語 |
にほんご |
(n) Japanese language |
685 |
| 語る |
かたる |
(v5r) to talk; to tell; to recite |
1110 |
| 用語 |
ようご |
(n) term; terminology |
1262 |
| 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 |
| 落語 |
らくご |
(n) rakugo story; (telling) a comic story |
2782 |
| フランス語 |
フランスご |
(n) French language |
2800 |
| 世帯 |
せたい |
(n) household |
3167 |
| 原語 |
げんご |
(n) original word; original language |
3703 |
| 限界 |
げんかい |
(n) limit; bound |
3876 |
| ラテン語 |
ラテンご |
(n) Latin |
4057 |
| 世界中 |
せかいじゅう |
(n) around or throughout the world |
4067 |
| 単語 |
たんご |
(n) word; vocabulary; (usually) single-character word |
4260 |
| 語源 |
ごげん |
(n) word root; word derivation; etymology |
4446 |
| 国語 |
こくご |
(n) national language |
4832 |
| 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 |
| 中国語 |
ちゅうごくご |
(n) Chinese language |
5586 |
| 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 |
| 語尾 |
ごび |
(n) (inflected) end of a word |
6593 |
| 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 |
| 語族 |
ごぞく |
(n) family of languages |
7432 |
| 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 |
| 源氏物語 |
げんじものがたり |
the Tale of the Genji |
7841 |
| 次世代 |
じせだい |
(n) next (future) generation |
7841 |
| 語彙 |
ごい |
(n) vocabulary; glossary |
7922 |
| 世襲 |
せしゅう |
(n) heredity; heritage |
8490 |
| 造語 |
ぞうご |
(n) coined word |
8950 |
| 語学 |
ごがく |
(n) language study |
8994 |
| 創世 |
そうせい |
(n) creation of world |
9598 |
| 訳語 |
やくご |
(n) terms used in translation |
9748 |
| 早世 |
そうせい |
(n) dying young; early death |
10427 |
| 視界 |
しかい |
(n) field of vision |
10449 |
| 母語 |
ぼご |
(n) mother tongue |
10619 |
| 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 |
| 語り |
かたり |
(n) talking |
11119 |
| 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 |
| 略語 |
りゃくご |
(n) abbreviation; acronym |
11933 |
| 主語 |
しゅご |
(n) (gram) subject |
12052 |
| 財界 |
ざいかい |
(n) financial world |
12116 |
| 俗語 |
ぞくご |
(n) colloquialism; colloquial language |
12270 |
| 物語る |
ものがたる |
(v5r) to tell; to indicate |
12764 |
| 臨界 |
りんかい |
(n) critical (pressure, temperature, state, point) |
12861 |
| 漢語 |
かんご |
(n) Chinese word; Sino-Japanese word |
12994 |
| 標語 |
ひょうご |
(n) motto; slogan; catchword |
13250 |
| 敬語 |
けいご |
(n) honorific; term of respect |
13273 |
| 口語 |
こうご |
(n) colloquial language |
13381 |
| 浮世絵 |
うきよえ |
(n) ukiyoe (color print of everyday life in Edo period) |
13381 |
| 英単語 |
えいたんご |
(n) English word |
13970 |
| 隠語 |
いんご |
(n) (1) secret language; jargon; cant; (2) humbug |
14220 |
| 語句 |
ごく |
(n) words; phrases |
14284 |
| 対義語 |
たいぎご |
(n) word's opposite |
14331 |
| 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 |
| 仏語 |
ふつご |
(n) French language |
14624 |
| 仏語 |
ぶつご |
(n) Buddhist term |
14624 |
| ドイツ語 |
ドイツご |
(n) German language |
14861 |
| 語幹 |
ごかん |
(n) stem; root of a word |
14881 |
| 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 |
| 語り継ぐ |
かたりつぐ |
(v5g) to transmit; to hand down |
15527 |
| 熟語 |
じゅくご |
(n) idiom; idiomatic phrase; kanji compound |
15567 |
| 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 |
| 語録 |
ごろく |
(n) analects; sayings |
15789 |
| 独語 |
どくご |
(n) monologue; soliloquy |
15907 |
| 冥界 |
めいかい |
(n) hades; realm of the dead |
16091 |
| 語法 |
ごほう |
(n) diction; grammar; syntax |
16112 |
| 語形 |
ごけい |
(n) word form |
16248 |
| 述語 |
じゅつご |
(n) predicate |
16265 |
| 永世 |
えいせい |
(n) eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence |
16546 |
| 弾き語り |
ひきがたり |
(n) singing to one's own accompaniment |
16546 |
| 古語 |
こご |
(n) obsolete word; old proverb; ancient (Japanese) language |
16902 |
| 文語 |
ぶんご |
(n) written language; literary language |
17023 |
| 新語 |
しんご |
(n) new word |
17176 |
| 語呂合わせ |
ごろあわせ |
(n) rhyming game; play on words; pun |
17195 |
| 外界 |
がいかい |
(n) physical world; the externals |
17231 |
| 外界 |
げかい |
(n) physical world; the externals |
17231 |
| 語頭 |
ごとう |
(n) first part of a word |
17440 |
| 各界 |
かくかい |
(n) each field; various circles |
17484 |
| 各界 |
かっかい |
(n) each field; various circles |
17484 |
| 死語 |
しご |
(n) dead language; obsolete word |
17612 |
| 語り口 |
かたりくち |
(n) way of reciting; way of telling a story |
17775 |
| 霊界 |
れいかい |
(n) the spiritual world |
17810 |
| 電界 |
でんかい |
(n) electric field |
17994 |
| 勅語 |
ちょくご |
(n) imperial rescript |
18155 |
| 季語 |
きご |
(n) seasonal word (in haiku) |
18205 |
| 語順 |
ごじゅん |
(n) word order |
18762 |
| 磁界 |
じかい |
(n) magnetic field |
18869 |
| 豪語 |
ごうご |
(n,vs) boasting; bombast |
19211 |
| 論語 |
ろんご |
(n) the Analects of Confucius |
19269 |
| 語感 |
ごかん |
(n) sense of language |
19579 |
| 世界銀行 |
せかいぎんこう |
World Bank |
19922 |
| 人語 |
じんご |
(n) human speech |
20128 |
| 語義 |
ごぎ |
(n) meaning of a word |
20325 |
| 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 |
| 祖語 |
そご |
(n) a parent language |
20854 |
| 語り合う |
かたりあう |
(v5u) to talk together |
20989 |
| 語末 |
ごまつ |
(n) end of a word; suffix |
21314 |
| 見世物 |
みせもの |
(n) a show |
22113 |
| 語り手 |
かたりて |
(n) speaker; narrator; reciter |
22113 |
| 世辞 |
せじ |
(n) flattery; compliment |
22687 |
| 乱世 |
らんせい |
(n) troubled times; turbulent times |
22804 |
| 外語 |
がいご |
(n) foreign language |
22840 |
| 類義語 |
るいぎご |
(n) synonym |
22890 |
| 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 |
| 印欧語 |
いんおうご |
(n) Indo-European languages |
23399 |
| 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 |
| 語呂 |
ごろ |
(n) the sound; euphony |
24363 |
| 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 |
| 和語 |
わご |
(n) native Japanese words |
24627 |
| 世直し |
よなおし |
(n) world reformation |
25224 |
| 補語 |
ほご |
(n) (gram) complement |
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 |