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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 世界 |
せかい |
(n) the world; society; the universe |
79 |
| 世 |
よ |
(n) world; society; age; generation |
183 |
| 世紀 |
せいき |
(n) century; era |
258 |
| 紀元前 |
きげんぜん |
(n-adv,n-t) pre-era; B.C. |
1078 |
| 後半 |
こうはん |
(n-adv,n) second half |
1205 |
| 半 |
はん |
(n-adv,n,n-suf) half |
1529 |
| 世代 |
せだい |
(n) generation; the world; the age |
1971 |
| 前半 |
ぜんはん |
(n) first half |
2127 |
| 前半 |
ぜんぱん |
(n) first half |
2127 |
| 大半 |
たいはん |
(n) majority; mostly; generally |
2618 |
| 中世 |
ちゅうせい |
(n-adv,n-t) Middle Ages; mediaeval times |
2653 |
| 紀元 |
きげん |
(n) (1) era; (2) A.D. (Christian era) |
2699 |
| 半島 |
はんとう |
(n) peninsula |
2949 |
| 半分 |
はんぶん |
(n-adv,n) half |
3067 |
| 半分 |
はんぷん |
half minute |
3067 |
| 世帯 |
せたい |
(n) household |
3167 |
| 半ば |
なかば |
(n-adv,n) middle; half; semi; halfway; partly |
3810 |
| 世界中 |
せかいじゅう |
(n) around or throughout the world |
4067 |
| 半年 |
はんとし |
(n-adv,n-t) half year |
4900 |
| 半年 |
はんねん |
(n-adv,n-t) half year |
4900 |
| 世間 |
せけん |
(n) world; society |
5046 |
| 半径 |
はんけい |
(n) radius |
5092 |
| 皇紀 |
こうき |
(n) Imperial era |
5332 |
| 半導体 |
はんどうたい |
(n) semiconductor |
5398 |
| 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 |
| 朝鮮半島 |
ちょうせんはんとう |
Korean peninsula |
6425 |
| 紀行 |
きこう |
(n) traveller's journal |
6617 |
| 治世 |
ちせい |
(n) rule; reign; peaceful times; regime; dynasty |
6652 |
| 日本書紀 |
にほんしょき |
Nihon-shoki (the oldest chronicles of Japan) |
6933 |
| 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 |
| 半田 |
はんだ |
(n) solder; pewter |
7957 |
| 紀勢本線 |
きせいほんせん |
Kisei Main Line (Wakayama-Mie Railway) |
8272 |
| 世襲 |
せしゅう |
(n) heredity; heritage |
8490 |
| 半数 |
はんすう |
(n) half the number |
8550 |
| 創世 |
そうせい |
(n) creation of world |
9598 |
| 過半数 |
かはんすう |
(n) majority |
9940 |
| 半減 |
はんげん |
(n,vs) reduction by half; halve |
9971 |
| 早世 |
そうせい |
(n) dying young; early death |
10427 |
| 千年紀 |
せんねんき |
(n) millennium |
10501 |
| 世俗 |
せぞく |
(n) common customs; worldliness; vulgar; popular; the world; the common people |
10821 |
| 上半身 |
じょうはんしん |
(n) upper half of body; bust |
10834 |
| 上半期 |
かみはんき |
(n) first half of a year |
11304 |
| 救世主 |
きゅうせいしゅ |
(n) saviour; messiah |
11643 |
| 下半身 |
かはんしん |
(n) lower half of body |
11817 |
| 下半身 |
しもはんしん |
(n) lower half of body |
11817 |
| 世の中 |
よのなか |
(n) society; the world; the times |
11902 |
| 半角 |
はんかく |
(n) half-width characters (e.g. romaji) |
12150 |
| 半音 |
はんおん |
(n) half tone (music) |
12679 |
| 下半期 |
かはんき |
(n) the last half-year |
12698 |
| 下半期 |
しもはんき |
(n) the last half-year |
12698 |
| 時半 |
じはん |
about an hour; short time |
12698 |
| 浮世絵 |
うきよえ |
(n) ukiyoe (color print of everyday life in Edo period) |
13381 |
| 中途半端 |
ちゅうとはんぱ |
(adj-na,n) halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves |
14016 |
| 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 |
| 半生 |
はんしょう |
(n) half death |
14694 |
| 半生 |
はんせい |
(n) half a lifetime |
14694 |
| 半額 |
はんがく |
(n-adv,n) half; half amount; half fare |
14805 |
| 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 |
| 北半球 |
きたはんきゅう |
(n) northern hemisphere |
15502 |
| 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 |
| 半球 |
はんきゅう |
(n) hemisphere |
16711 |
| 南半球 |
みなみはんきゅう |
(n) southern hemisphere |
17023 |
| 記紀 |
きき |
the Kojiki and Nihonshoki |
17505 |
| ジュラ紀 |
ジュラき |
(adj-na,n) Jurassic Period; Jurassic |
17685 |
| 半熟 |
はんじゅく |
(adj-no,n) half-cooked; half-done; soft-boiled |
17685 |
| 風紀 |
ふうき |
(n) public morals |
18538 |
| 半身 |
はんしん |
(n) half the body; half length |
18793 |
| 半月 |
はんげつ |
(n-adv,n-t) half-moon; half month; semicircle |
19016 |
| 半月 |
はんつき |
(n-adv,n-t) half-moon; half month; semicircle |
19016 |
| 紀要 |
きよう |
(n) bulletin; memoirs |
19170 |
| 能登半島 |
のとはんとう |
peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture |
19211 |
| 世界銀行 |
せかいぎんこう |
World Bank |
19922 |
| 半円 |
はんえん |
(n) semi circle |
20004 |
| 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 |
| 半壊 |
はんかい |
(n) partial destruction |
22001 |
| 見世物 |
みせもの |
(n) a show |
22113 |
| 綱紀 |
こうき |
(ateji) (n) law and order; discipline |
22305 |
| 半日 |
はんじつ |
(n-adv,n-t) half day |
22493 |
| 半日 |
はんにち |
(n-adv,n-t) half day |
22493 |
| 半袖 |
はんそで |
(n) short sleeves |
22570 |
| 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 |
| 半母音 |
はんぼいん |
(n) semivowel |
23088 |
| 四半期 |
しはんき |
(n) quarter (of a year) |
23295 |
| 半永久 |
はんえいきゅう |
(n) semipermanence |
23295 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 紀伊國屋 |
きのくにや |
Large bookstore with big foreign book section (main branch, Shinjuku) |
24980 |
| 半端 |
はんぱ |
(adj-na,n) remnant; fragment; incomplete set; fraction; odd sum; incompleteness |
25172 |
| 半面 |
はんめん |
(n) half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary |
25172 |
| 世直し |
よなおし |
(n) world reformation |
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 |
| 夜半 |
やはん |
(n-adv,n-t) midnight; dead of night |
25423 |
| 夜半 |
よわ |
(n-adv,n-t) midnight; dead of night |
25423 |
| 折半 |
せっぱん |
(n,vs) half; division |
25491 |
| 半々 |
はんはん |
(n) half and half; fifty-fifty |
25630 |
| 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 |
| 四畳半 |
よじょうはん |
(n) 4 1; 2 Tatami mats |
26494 |
| 四半世紀 |
しはんせいき |
(n) quarter of a century |
26730 |
| 丁半 |
ちょうはん |
(n) odd and even numbers; dice game; gambling |
27330 |
| 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 |
| 半身不随 |
はんしんふずい |
(n) paralyzed on one side |
28008 |
| 世情 |
せじょう |
(n) the ways of the world; human nature |
28300 |
| 紀元節 |
きげんせつ |
(n) (historical) Empire Day |
28975 |
| 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 |
| 過半 |
かはん |
(n) the greater part |
29962 |
| 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 |
| 半開 |
はんかい |
(n) semicivilized |
30688 |
| 半期 |
はんき |
(n-adv,n-t) half-term; half-time; half period |
30688 |
| 厭世 |
えんせい |
(n) pessimism; weariness with life |
30832 |
| 西紀 |
せいき |
(n) Christian era |
30832 |
| 半殺し |
はんごろし |
(n) half killed |
30969 |
| 半官半民 |
はんかんはんみん |
(adj-no,n) semi-governmental; semi-official |
31224 |
| 半周 |
はんしゅう |
(n) semicircle; half globe |
31224 |
| 世人 |
せじん |
(n) the people; the public; the world |
31368 |
| 半旗 |
はんき |
(n) flag at half-mast |
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 |
| 半人前 |
はんにんまえ |
(n) half share; half a man |
31930 |
| 上世 |
かみつよ |
(n) antiquity; ancient times |
32076 |
| 上世 |
じょうせい |
(n) antiquity; ancient times |
32076 |