Coming: you'll be able to favorite these words shortly.
Entry Reading English Rank
役 えき (n) war; campaign; battle 217
役 やく (n,n-suf) use; service; role; position 217
取締役 とりしまりやく (n) company director; board member 1701
兼 けん (conj,n) and; in addition; concurrently 1725
役割 やくわり (n) part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties 1728
現役 げんえき (n) active duty; active service 1957
市役所 しやくしょ (n) municipal office; council; city hall 2499
役場 やくば (n) town hall 3198
主役 しゅやく (n) leading part; leading actor (actress) 3706
兼任 けんにん (n) concurrent post 3894
兼ねる かねる (suf,v1) to hold (position); to serve; to be unable; to be beyond one's ability; to combine with; to use with; cannot; to hesitate to; to be impatient 4331
役員 やくいん (n) officer; official; executive; staff 5147
役者 やくしゃ (n) actor; actress 5220
子役 こやく (n) dramatic role for child; child actor 5223
区役所 くやくしょ (n) ward office; council (regional) 5315
役職 やくしょく (n) post; managerial position; official position 5829
退役 たいえき (n,vs) retiring from military service 6177
就役 しゅうえき (n,vs) placed in commission; entering servitude 6733
悪役 あくやく (n) villain; baddie; the villain's part 7077
懲役 ちょうえき (n) penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor 7083
役目 やくめ (n) duty; business 7422
代役 だいやく (n) important mission; heavy role; substitute actor; stand-in; double 7427
役立つ やくだつ (v5t) to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose 7922
兼務 けんむ (n) additional post 7957
役所 やくしょ (n) government office; public office 9049
戦役 せんえき (n) war 9422
役名 やくめい (n) official title 9638
脇役 わきやく (n) supporting role (actor); minor role 9769
兵役 へいえき (n) military service; conscription 10164
役柄 やくがら (n) role 10179
役務 えきむ (n) labor; service 10187
役に立つ やくにたつ (v5t) to be helpful; to be useful 10197
役人 やくにん (n) government official 10883
兼用 けんよう (n) multi-use; combined use; combination; serving two purposes 11720
相談役 そうだんやく (n) counselor; adviser 12005
兼ね備える かねそなえる (v1) to have both; to combine with 12246
一役 いちやく an office; an important office 13439
一役 ひとやく (n) a part to play 13439
助役 じょやく (n) assistant official 13543
男役 おとこやく (n) male part or role 13595
荷役 にえき (n) handling cargo; loading and unloading 13716
荷役 にやく (n) handling cargo; loading and unloading 13716
配役 はいやく (n) cast (of a play) 14243
服役 ふくえき (n) penal servitude; military service 14784
使役 しえき (n,vs) employing; using; setting to work; enslavement 15679
敵役 かたきやく (n) role of the villain; the bad guy 15907
敵役 てきやく (n) role of the villain; the bad guy 15907
兼ね合い かねあい (n,vs) equilibrium; good balance; poise 16133
重役 おもやく (n) heavy responsibilities; director 16439
重役 じゅうやく (n) director; high executive 16439
端役 はやく (n) minor role 16546
共役 きょうえき (math) conjugation 17058
兼営 けんえい (n,vs) operating or carrying on simultaneously 18406
役回り やくまわり (n) role; part; (unpleasant) duty 18406
兼業 けんぎょう (n) side line; second business 18918
兼業 けんごう (n) side line; second business 18918
役立てる やくだてる (v1) to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account 19693
村役場 むらやくば (n) village office 20278
兼帯 けんたい (n) combined use; combination; filling two positions; serving two purposes 22615
軍役 ぐんえき (n) military service 22840
軍役 ぐんやく (n) military service 22840
夫役 ぶえき (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 24217
夫役 ぶやく (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 24217
労役 ろうえき (n) work; labor; toil 24915
顔役 かおやく (n) influential man; boss 25358
大役 たいやく (n) important task or role or duty 26398
雑役 ざつえき (n) chore; odd job 27521
兼備 けんび (n,vs) being proficient in both; combine both 27901
兼職 けんしょく (n) pluralism; plurality; concurrent post 28115
才色兼備 さいしょくけんび (n) (a woman) being gifted with both intelligence and beauty 28567
同役 どうやく (n) colleague 28681
守役 もりやく (n) a nurse or nanny; guardian 30433
賦役 ふえき (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 31368
賦役 ぶやく (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 31368
上役 うわやく (n) superior; senior 32784
パイプ役 パイプやく mediator 32964
気兼ね きがね (adj-na,n,vs) hesitance; diffidence; feeling constraint; fear of troubling someone; having scruples about doing something 36169
憎まれ役 にくまれやく (n) thankless role; ungracious part 36169
下役 したやく (n) underling; subordinate official 36884
難役 なんやく (n) difficult role 36884
公役 こうえき (n) public service 37405
役宅 やくたく (n) government housing for officials 37405
汚れ役 よごれやく (n) socially undesirable characters 37706
兼官 けんかん (n) additional post 38001
老け役 ふけやく (n) (theatrical) role of old person 38001
苦役 くえき (n) hard toil 38280
能役者 のうやくしゃ (n) noh actor 38280
聞き役 ききやく (n) listener's role 38280
在役 ざいえき (n) in prison; in the military 39227
小役人 こやくにん (n) petty official 39571
兼修 けんしゅう (n) studying two lines together (as a major and a minor) 40263
旅役者 たびやくしゃ (n) itinerant entertainer or troupe 40263
町役人 まちやくにん (n) municipal official 40619
免役 めんえき (n) release from office; military service, or prison 40619
初役 はつやく (n) first role 41039
千両役者 せんりょうやくしゃ (n) star (actor); prima donna; leading figure 41904
相役 あいやく (n) colleague 41904
側役 そばやく (n) personal attendant 41904
用役 ようえき (n) service 41904
見兼ねる みかねる (v1) to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent 42342
三役 さんやく (n) three highest ranks (wrestling, unions, etc) 42893
役得 やくとく (n) emoluments; perquisite; side benefit 42893
兼補 けんぽ (n) carrying on a second line of work 43447
適役 てきやく (n) suitable post or role 43447
立て役者 たてやくしゃ (n) leading actor 43447
兼併 けんぺい (n,vs) uniting; unity 44061
兼摂 けんせつ (n) concurrent post 44709
役牛 えきぎゅう (n) work cow; work cattle 44709
役付き やくつき (n) holding a position of responsibility 44709
役付き やくづき (n) holding a position of responsibility 44709
役儀 やくぎ (n) role; duty; responsibility 46248
役僧 やくそう (n) priest in charge of a temple's clerical duties 46248
役畜 えきちく (n) beasts of burden 46248
兼勤 けんきん (n) additional post 47205
牢役人 ろうやくにん (n) (Edo-period) jail warden 47205
兼有 けんゆう (n) having both 48294
役向き やくむき (n) nature of one's position 48294
役不足 やくぶそく (adj-na,n) dissatisfaction with one's position 48294
兼行 けんこう (n) doing simultaneously 49657
兼題 けんだい (n) subject for a poem 49657
言い兼ねる いいかねる (v1) to find it hard to say 49657
傍役 わきやく (n) supporting role (actor); minor role 49657
役替え やくがえ (n) change of post 49657
お待ち兼ね おまちかね (adj-no,n) long-waited-for 51560
意味役割 いみやくわり semantic role 51560
一役買う ひとやくかう to take on a role; to take part 51560
引き立て役 ひきたてやく (n) a foil 51560
仮役 かりやく temporary post 51560
加役 かやく (n) temporary extra work 51560
火付け役 ひつけやく (n) instigator; troublemaker 51560
課役 かえき (n) distribution of assignments 51560
堪え兼ねる たえかねる (v1) to be unable to endure; to lose patience 51560
監査役 かんさやく (n) auditor; inspector 51560
居間兼食堂 いまけんしょくどう living room-cum-dining room 51560
居間兼寝室 いまけんしんしつ living room and bedroom; bed-sitter 51560
郡役所 ぐんやくしょ county offices 51560
兼す けんす (vs) to combine with; to serve as both; to hold an additional post; to use with 51560
兼ねて かねて (adv) simultaneously 51560
兼ねない かねない (suf,int) capable of any crime; "would not put it past him" 51560
兼ね兼ね かねがね (adv) often; lately; already 51560
兼ね仕える かねつかえる (v1) to serve at the same time 51560
兼ね役 かねやく carrying on a second line of work 51560
兼業農家 けんぎょうのうか part-time farmer 51560
検査役 けんさやく (n) inspector 51560
御待ち兼ね おまちかね (adj-no,n) long-waited-for 51560
公証人役場 こうしょうにんやくば notary office 51560
公証役場 こうしょうやくば notary public's office 51560
再服役 さいふくえき re-enlistment; second imprisonment 51560
雑役夫 ざつえきふ handyman 51560
雑役婦 ざつえきふ cleaning lady 51560