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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 語 |
ご |
(n,n-suf) language; word |
116 |
| 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 |
| 倒す |
たおす |
(v5s,vt) to throw down; to beat; to bring down; to blow down; to fell; to knock down; to trip up; to defeat; to ruin; to overthrow; to kill; to leave unpaid; to cheat |
1695 |
| 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 |
| 原語 |
げんご |
(n) original word; original language |
3703 |
| 圧倒的 |
あっとうてき |
(adj-na,n) overwhelming |
3731 |
| ラテン語 |
ラテンご |
(n) Latin |
4057 |
| 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 |
| 倒れる |
たおれる |
(v1,vi) to collapse; to break down; to go bankrupt; to fall; to drop; to die; to succumb to; to fall senseless; to be ruined; to have a bad debt |
4465 |
| 国語 |
こくご |
(n) national language |
4832 |
| 中国語 |
ちゅうごくご |
(n) Chinese language |
5586 |
| 倒産 |
とうさん |
(n,vs) (corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency |
6028 |
| 語尾 |
ごび |
(n) (inflected) end of a word |
6593 |
| 語族 |
ごぞく |
(n) family of languages |
7432 |
| 源氏物語 |
げんじものがたり |
the Tale of the Genji |
7841 |
| 面倒 |
めんどう |
(adj-na,n) trouble; difficulty; care; attention |
7860 |
| 語彙 |
ごい |
(n) vocabulary; glossary |
7922 |
| 圧倒 |
あっとう |
(n,vs) overwhelm; overpower; overwhelming |
8073 |
| 造語 |
ぞうご |
(n) coined word |
8950 |
| 語学 |
ごがく |
(n) language study |
8994 |
| 打倒 |
だとう |
(n,vs) knockdown (e.g. in boxing); overthrow; defeat |
9422 |
| 訳語 |
やくご |
(n) terms used in translation |
9748 |
| 母語 |
ぼご |
(n) mother tongue |
10619 |
| 傾倒 |
けいとう |
(n,vs) admiration; adoration; concentration on; idolizing |
10971 |
| 語り |
かたり |
(n) talking |
11119 |
| 転倒 |
てんとう |
(n,vs) tumbling; falling down; inversion; reverse; upset; turn over; invert |
11160 |
| 略語 |
りゃくご |
(n) abbreviation; acronym |
11933 |
| 主語 |
しゅご |
(n) (gram) subject |
12052 |
| 俗語 |
ぞくご |
(n) colloquialism; colloquial language |
12270 |
| 物語る |
ものがたる |
(v5r) to tell; to indicate |
12764 |
| 倒壊 |
とうかい |
(n,vs) destruction; collapse |
12921 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 罵倒 |
ばとう |
(n,vs) abuse; disparagement |
14503 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 語録 |
ごろく |
(n) analects; sayings |
15789 |
| 独語 |
どくご |
(n) monologue; soliloquy |
15907 |
| 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 |
| 弾き語り |
ひきがたり |
(n) singing to one's own accompaniment |
16546 |
| 倒幕 |
とうばく |
(n,vs) overthrow of the shogunate |
16822 |
| 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 |
| 語頭 |
ごとう |
(n) first part of a word |
17440 |
| 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 |
| 前倒し |
まえだおし |
(n) acceleration (of payment schedule) |
17968 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 人語 |
じんご |
(n) human speech |
20128 |
| 語義 |
ごぎ |
(n) meaning of a word |
20325 |
| 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 |
| 一辺倒 |
いっぺんとう |
(n) complete devotion to one side |
21792 |
| 倒錯 |
とうさく |
(n) perversion; inversion |
22057 |
| 語り手 |
かたりて |
(n) speaker; narrator; reciter |
22113 |
| 外語 |
がいご |
(n) foreign language |
22840 |
| 類義語 |
るいぎご |
(n) synonym |
22890 |
| 印欧語 |
いんおうご |
(n) Indo-European languages |
23399 |
| 語呂 |
ごろ |
(n) the sound; euphony |
24363 |
| 和語 |
わご |
(n) native Japanese words |
24627 |
| 倒立 |
とうりつ |
(n) handstand |
24699 |
| 打ち倒す |
うちたおす |
(v5s) to knock down; to defeat |
25224 |
| 補語 |
ほご |
(n) (gram) complement |
25286 |
| 同義語 |
どうぎご |
(n) synonym |
25767 |
| 対語 |
ついご |
(n) pairing of (opposite) words; antonym |
26817 |
| 軍記物語 |
ぐんきものがたり |
(n) war chronicle |
26991 |
| 複合語 |
ふくごうご |
(n) compound word |
27058 |
| 類語 |
るいご |
(n) synonym |
27521 |
| 本末転倒 |
ほんまつてんとう |
(n) failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential |
27617 |
| 梵語 |
ぼんご |
(n) Sanskrit |
27617 |
| 語根 |
ごこん |
(n) root (origin) of a word |
27703 |
| 術語 |
じゅつご |
(n) technical term |
27801 |
| 切り倒す |
きりたおす |
(v5s) to cut down; to chop down; to fell |
28300 |
| 横倒し |
よこだおし |
(n) falling over; toppling sideways |
28391 |
| 成語 |
せいご |
(n) set phrase; idiomatic expression |
28487 |
| 倒木 |
とうぼく |
(n) fallen tree |
28567 |
| 倒閣 |
とうかく |
(n,vs) overthrow of government |
28866 |
| 昏倒 |
こんとう |
(n) swoon; faint |
29190 |
| 擬態語 |
ぎたいご |
(n) mimetic word (not mimicking sound) |
29736 |
| 共倒れ |
ともだおれ |
(n) falling together; mutual destruction; joint bankruptcy |
30069 |
| 夢物語 |
ゆめものがたり |
(n) account of a dream; empty dream; fantastic story |
30195 |
| 語らう |
かたらう |
(v5u) to talk; to tell; to recite; to pledge; to conspire with |
30433 |
| 将棋倒し |
しょうぎだおし |
(n) falling one after another |
30552 |
| 口語体 |
こうごたい |
(n) colloquial style |
30969 |
| 押し倒す |
おしたおす |
(v5s) to push down |
31088 |
| 卒倒 |
そっとう |
(n) fainting; swooning |
31648 |
| 倒置 |
とうち |
(n,vs) turning upside down; placing nonessentials before essentials |
31784 |
| 踏み倒す |
ふみたおす |
(v5s) to trample down; to bilk; to shirk payment |
31930 |
| 失語 |
しつご |
(n) forgetting the words; inability to pronounce a word correctly |
32501 |
| 法語 |
ほうご |
(n) Buddhist sermon |
32964 |
| 一語 |
いちご |
(n) one word |
33111 |
| 言語道断 |
ごんごどうだん |
(adj-na,n) outrageous; preposterous; inexcusable; absurd |
33282 |
| 失語症 |
しつごしょう |
(n) loss of speech |
33282 |
| 夢語り |
ゆめがたり |
(n) account of a dream |
33830 |
| 語調 |
ごちょう |
(n) tone (of voice); note; accent |
34034 |
| 行き倒れ |
いきだおれ |
(n) person collapsed and dying (dead) in the street |
34955 |
| 行き倒れ |
ゆきだおれ |
(n) person collapsed and dying (dead) in the street |
34955 |
| 私語 |
しご |
(n) whispering; secret talk |
35139 |
| 反語 |
はんご |
(n) irony; rhetorical question; antonym; word in reverse |
35139 |
| 卑語 |
ひご |
(n) slang; vulgar expression; vulgarism |
35139 |
| 米語 |
べいご |
(n) American English (lang) |
35139 |
| 文語文 |
ぶんごぶん |
(n) literary language |
35577 |
| 邦語 |
ほうご |
(n) one's native language; Japanese |
35577 |
| 連語 |
れんご |
(n) compound word; phrase |
35778 |
| 語釈 |
ごしゃく |
(n) interpretation of a word |
35968 |
| 面倒臭い |
めんどうくさい |
(adj) bother to do; tiresome |
35968 |
| 語弊 |
ごへい |
(n) faulty expression |
36396 |
| 口語文 |
こうごぶん |
(n) colloquial language or sentence |
36396 |
| 大言壮語 |
たいげんそうご |
(n) big talk; boasting; bragging |
36620 |
| 語気 |
ごき |
(n) tone; manner of speaking |
37130 |
| 語意 |
ごい |
(n) meaning of a word |
37405 |
| 語数 |
ごすう |
(n) number of words |
37706 |
| 張り倒す |
はりたおす |
(v5s) to knock down |
37706 |
| 倒伏 |
とうふく |
(n) falling down |
38280 |
| 抱腹絶倒 |
ほうふくぜっとう |
(n) very funny; laugh oneself into convulsions; split one's sides laughing |
38280 |
| 語り物 |
かたりもの |
(n) a narrative |
38888 |
| 詩語 |
しご |
(n) poetic diction |
38888 |
| 擬声語 |
ぎせいご |
(n) onomatope (i.e. word formed by onomatopoeia) |
39227 |
| 七転八倒 |
しちてんばっとう |
(n,vs) tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony |
39571 |
| 反意語 |
はんいご |
(n) antonym |
39571 |
| 妄語 |
もうご |
(n,vs) lie; falsehood |
39571 |
| 雅語 |
がご |
(n) refined diction; polite expression |
39920 |