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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 開始 |
かいし |
(n,vs) start; commencement; beginning |
184 |
| 開発 |
かいはつ |
(n) development; exploitation |
198 |
| 開業 |
かいぎょう |
(n) opening of business or practice |
435 |
| 開催 |
かいさい |
(n,vs) holding a meeting; open an exhibition |
453 |
| 公開 |
こうかい |
(n,vs) presenting to the public |
711 |
| 展開 |
てんかい |
(n,vs) develop; expansion (opposite of compression) |
891 |
| 開通 |
かいつう |
(n,vs) opening; open |
1172 |
| 後半 |
こうはん |
(n-adv,n) second half |
1205 |
| 開く |
あく |
(v5k,vi) (1) to open; to become open; to become empty |
1260 |
| 開く |
ひらく |
(v5k) to open (e.g. a festival) |
1260 |
| 開設 |
かいせつ |
(n,vs) establishment; opening |
1308 |
| 半 |
はん |
(n-adv,n,n-suf) half |
1529 |
| 前半 |
ぜんはん |
(n) first half |
2127 |
| 前半 |
ぜんぱん |
(n) first half |
2127 |
| 開局 |
かいきょく |
(n) opening of post-office or telephone exchange |
2302 |
| 再開 |
さいかい |
(n) reopening; resumption |
2471 |
| 大半 |
たいはん |
(n) majority; mostly; generally |
2618 |
| 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 |
| 開幕 |
かいまく |
(n) raising the curtain |
3451 |
| 開校 |
かいこう |
(n) opening a school |
3554 |
| 開放 |
かいほう |
(n,vs) open; throw open; liberalization |
3656 |
| 半ば |
なかば |
(n-adv,n) middle; half; semi; halfway; partly |
3810 |
| 開拓 |
かいたく |
(n,vs) reclamation (of wasteland); cultivation; pioneer |
4489 |
| 開ける |
あける |
(v1) to open |
4628 |
| 開ける |
ひらける |
(v1) to become civilized; to become opened up; be up-to-date |
4628 |
| 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 |
| 開店 |
かいてん |
(n,vs) (grand) opening of shop |
5040 |
| 半径 |
はんけい |
(n) radius |
5092 |
| 半導体 |
はんどうたい |
(n) semiconductor |
5398 |
| 開館 |
かいかん |
(n) opening of new hall |
5978 |
| 朝鮮半島 |
ちょうせんはんとう |
Korean peninsula |
6425 |
| 開戦 |
かいせん |
(n,vs) outbreak of war; starting a war |
6509 |
| 開港 |
かいこう |
(n) open port; opening a port |
7400 |
| 開閉 |
かいへい |
(n) opening and shutting |
7665 |
| 半田 |
はんだ |
(n) solder; pewter |
7957 |
| 半数 |
はんすう |
(n) half the number |
8550 |
| 開花 |
かいか |
(n,vs) blooming |
8720 |
| 開場 |
かいじょう |
(n,vs) opening |
8899 |
| 開会 |
かいかい |
(n) opening of a meeting |
9062 |
| 開園 |
かいえん |
(n) garden opening |
9129 |
| 過半数 |
かはんすう |
(n) majority |
9940 |
| 半減 |
はんげん |
(n,vs) reduction by half; halve |
9971 |
| 非公開 |
ひこうかい |
(n) private |
10242 |
| 開基 |
かいき |
(n) foundation of a temple; laying a foundation (stone) |
10830 |
| 上半身 |
じょうはんしん |
(n) upper half of body; bust |
10834 |
| 開祖 |
かいそ |
(n) (sect) founder; apostle; originator; inventor |
10937 |
| 上半期 |
かみはんき |
(n) first half of a year |
11304 |
| 開山 |
かいさん |
(n) founding a temple (on a hill-top) |
11341 |
| 開口 |
かいこう |
(n) open mouth |
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 |
| 疎開 |
そかい |
(n) dispersal; evacuation; deployment |
11924 |
| 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 |
| 開国 |
かいこく |
(n,vs) opening of a country (e.g. Japan) to the world |
13236 |
| 開示 |
かいじ |
(n) disclosure (legal) |
13476 |
| 開運 |
かいうん |
(n) better fortune |
13574 |
| 開城 |
かいじょう |
(n) capitulation (of fort) |
13648 |
| 打開 |
だかい |
(n) break in the deadlock |
13825 |
| 中途半端 |
ちゅうとはんぱ |
(adj-na,n) halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves |
14016 |
| 新開地 |
しんかいち |
(n) newly opened or recently settled land |
14405 |
| 開削 |
かいさく |
(n) excavation; cutting; digging |
14446 |
| 半生 |
はんしょう |
(n) half death |
14694 |
| 半生 |
はんせい |
(n) half a lifetime |
14694 |
| 開講 |
かいこう |
(n,vs) beginning a series of one's lectures; starting a new course |
14745 |
| 半額 |
はんがく |
(n-adv,n) half; half amount; half fare |
14805 |
| 開封 |
かいふう |
(n,vs) unsealed letter; breaking the seal |
15294 |
| 開墾 |
かいこん |
(n,vs) cultivating new land |
15460 |
| 北半球 |
きたはんきゅう |
(n) northern hemisphere |
15502 |
| 開票 |
かいひょう |
(n) counting ballots |
15771 |
| 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 |
| 満開 |
まんかい |
(n) full bloom |
17636 |
| 切り開く |
きりひらく |
(v5k) to clear (land); to open up; to cut through |
17661 |
| 半熟 |
はんじゅく |
(adj-no,n) half-cooked; half-done; soft-boiled |
17685 |
| 全開 |
ぜんかい |
(n,vs) opening fully; full throttle |
18155 |
| 両開き |
りょうびらき |
(n) double (two-leaf) door |
18205 |
| 開眼 |
かいがん |
(n,vs) enlightenment; spiritual awakening; opening ones eyes to the truth |
18267 |
| 開眼 |
かいげん |
(n,vs) enlightenment; spiritual awakening; opening ones eyes to the truth |
18267 |
| 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 |
| 能登半島 |
のとはんとう |
peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture |
19211 |
| 散開 |
さんかい |
(n) deployment |
19375 |
| 半円 |
はんえん |
(n) semi circle |
20004 |
| 未開 |
みかい |
(adj-na,adj-no,n) savage land; backward region; uncivilized |
20047 |
| 新開 |
しんかい |
(n) opening (of uncultivated land) |
20200 |
| 幕開け |
まくあけ |
(n) beginning; opening (of play) |
20946 |
| 開所 |
かいしょ |
(n,vs) open a new business |
21836 |
| 半壊 |
はんかい |
(n) partial destruction |
22001 |
| 開化 |
かいか |
(n) civilization; enlightenment |
22445 |
| 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 |
| 半母音 |
はんぼいん |
(n) semivowel |
23088 |
| 開明 |
かいめい |
(n) civilization; enlightenment |
23235 |
| 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 |
| 切開 |
せっかい |
(n,vs) clearing (land); opening up; cutting through |
23686 |
| 開き直る |
ひらきなおる |
(v5r) to become defiant; to turn upon; to become serious |
24363 |
| 開業医 |
かいぎょうい |
(n) medical practitioner |
24777 |
| 開院 |
かいいん |
(n) opening congress; hospital opening |
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 |
| 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 |
| 文明開化 |
ぶんめいかいか |
(n) Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era |
25491 |
| 半々 |
はんはん |
(n) half and half; fifty-fifty |
25630 |
| 宇宙開発事業団 |
うちゅうかいはつじぎょうだん |
NASDA; National Space Development Agency |
25918 |
| 開門 |
かいもん |
(n) opening gate |
26001 |
| 開演 |
かいえん |
(n) curtain raising; starting (e.g. play, concert) |
26240 |
| 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 |
| 帝王切開 |
ていおうせっかい |
(n) Caesarean section |
27617 |
| 見開き |
みひらき |
(n) two pages opposite each other |
27901 |
| 半身不随 |
はんしんふずい |
(n) paralyzed on one side |
28008 |
| 見開く |
みひらく |
(v5k) to open one's eyes |
28681 |
| 開帳 |
かいちょう |
(n,vs) unveiling a Buddhist image; gambling |
28780 |
| 開平 |
かいへい |
(n) extraction of square root |
28975 |
| 開襟 |
かいきん |
(n) open-necked (shirt) |
29190 |
| 過半 |
かはん |
(n) the greater part |
29962 |
| 観音開き |
かんのんびらき |
(n) double doors |
30195 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 半旗 |
はんき |
(n) flag at half-mast |
31368 |
| 開腹 |
かいふく |
(n) making a surgical incision in the abdomen |
31527 |
| 開鑿 |
かいさく |
(oK) (n) excavation; cutting; digging |
31784 |
| 天地開闢 |
てんちかいびゃく |
(n) creation of heaven and earth |
31930 |
| 半人前 |
はんにんまえ |
(n) half share; half a man |
31930 |
| 半裸 |
はんら |
(n) half-nakedness |
32076 |
| 北半 |
ほくはん |
northern half |
32216 |
| 南半 |
なんはん |
southern half |
33462 |
| 半紙 |
はんし |
(n) Japanese writing paper used for calligraphy |
33462 |
| 開闢 |
かいびゃく |
(n) beginnings; creation; founding (of empire) |
33636 |
| 開廷 |
かいてい |
(n) court session; trial |
33830 |
| 三半規管 |
さんはんきかん |
(n) semicircular canals |
34034 |
| 開陳 |
かいちん |
(n,vs) stating; expressing (ones opinion) |
34761 |
| 開架 |
かいか |
(n) open access (in a library); open shelves |
34955 |
| 山開き |
やまびらき |
(n) start of the mountain-climbing season |
35357 |