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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 事 |
こと |
(n) thing; matter; fact; circumstances; business; reason; experience |
88 |
| 事業 |
じぎょう |
(n) project; enterprise; business; industry; operations |
259 |
| 事件 |
じけん |
(n) event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal |
276 |
| 文化 |
ぶんか |
(n) culture; civilization |
281 |
| 記事 |
きじ |
(n) article; news story; report; account |
328 |
| 文字 |
もじ |
(n) letter (of alphabet); character |
545 |
| 文字 |
もんじ |
(n) letter (of alphabet); character |
545 |
| 文学 |
ぶんがく |
(n) literature |
741 |
| 文 |
ふみ |
(n) letter; writings |
765 |
| 文 |
ぶん |
(n) sentence |
765 |
| 事務所 |
じむしょ |
(n) office |
899 |
| 事実 |
じじつ |
(n-adv,n) fact; truth; reality |
947 |
| 事故 |
じこ |
(n) accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons |
991 |
| 文庫 |
ぶんこ |
(n) library; book collection |
1048 |
| 工事 |
こうじ |
(n) construction work |
1049 |
| 刑事 |
けいじ |
(n) criminal case; (police) detective |
1067 |
| 文献 |
ぶんけん |
(n) literature; books (reference) |
1219 |
| 仕事 |
しごと |
(adj-no,n) work; occupation; employment |
1235 |
| 軍事 |
ぐんじ |
(n) military affairs |
1313 |
| 事項 |
じこう |
(n) matter; item; facts |
1332 |
| 文化財 |
ぶんかざい |
(n) cultural assets; cultural property |
1725 |
| 事務 |
じむ |
(n) business; office work |
1787 |
| 理事 |
りじ |
(n) director; board of directors |
1990 |
| 文書 |
ぶんしょ |
(n) document; writing; letter; note; records; archives |
2076 |
| 文書 |
もんじょ |
(n) document; writing; letter; note; records; archives |
2076 |
| 事情 |
じじょう |
(n) circumstances; consideration; conditions; situation; reasons |
2228 |
| 出来事 |
できごと |
(n) incident; affair; happening; event |
2449 |
| 事典 |
じてん |
(n) cyclopedia; encyclopedia |
2599 |
| 事態 |
じたい |
(n) situation; present state of affairs; circumstances |
2605 |
| 天文 |
てんもん |
(n) astronomy |
2680 |
| 文明 |
ぶんめい |
(n) civilization; culture |
2713 |
| 英文 |
えいぶん |
(n) sentence in English |
2811 |
| 知事 |
ちじ |
(n) prefectural governor |
2819 |
| 行事 |
ぎょうじ |
(n) event; function |
2876 |
| 文章 |
ぶんしょう |
(n) sentence; article |
2905 |
| 論文 |
ろんぶん |
(n) thesis; essay; treatise; paper |
3111 |
| 天文学 |
てんもんがく |
(n) astronomy |
3264 |
| 文学部 |
ぶんがくぶ |
(n) department (faculty) of literature |
3495 |
| 事例 |
じれい |
(n) example; precedent |
3660 |
| 従事 |
じゅうじ |
(n,vs) engaging; pursuing; following |
3912 |
| 文部 |
もんぶ |
(n) (abbr) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
4053 |
| 文芸 |
ぶんげい |
(n) literature; art and literature; belles-lettres |
4054 |
| 事前 |
じぜん |
(adj-no,n) prior; beforehand; in advance |
4230 |
| 食事 |
しょくじ |
(n,vs) meal |
4265 |
| 見事 |
みごと |
(adj-na,n) splendid; magnificent; beautiful; admirable |
4533 |
| 幹事 |
かんじ |
(n,vs,exp) executive secretary; coordinator; arranging |
4651 |
| 文法 |
ぶんぽう |
(n) grammar |
4677 |
| 天文台 |
てんもんだい |
(n) astronomical observatory |
4705 |
| 祭事 |
さいじ |
(n) festival; rites; ritual |
4915 |
| 師事 |
しじ |
(n,vs) study under; looking up; apprentice oneself |
5032 |
| 県知事 |
けんちじ |
(n) prefectural governor |
5048 |
| 本文 |
ほんぶん |
(n) text (of document); body (of letter) |
5253 |
| 本文 |
ほんもん |
(n) text (of document); body (of letter) |
5253 |
| 文藝春秋 |
ぶんげいしゅんじゅう |
name of publishing company |
5277 |
| 頭文字 |
かしらもじ |
(n) initials; first letter of a word |
5449 |
| 民事 |
みんじ |
(n) civil affairs; civil case |
5512 |
| 呪文 |
じゅもん |
(n) spell; charm; incantation |
5523 |
| 人事 |
じんじ |
(n) personnel affairs; human affairs |
5610 |
| 人事 |
ひとごと |
(n) other's affairs |
5610 |
| 人文 |
じんぶん |
(n) humanity; civilization; culture |
6326 |
| 人文 |
じんもん |
(n) humanity; civilization; culture |
6326 |
| 検事 |
けんじ |
(n) public prosecutor |
6666 |
| 無事 |
ぶじ |
(adj-na,n) safety; peace; quietness |
6696 |
| 当事者 |
とうじしゃ |
(n) person concerned; interested party |
6713 |
| 文政 |
ぶんせい |
(n) educational policies or administration |
6799 |
| 注文 |
ちゅうもん |
(n,vs) order; request |
7389 |
| 判事 |
はんじ |
(n) judge; judiciary |
7413 |
| 大事 |
おおごと |
(adj-na,n) important; valuable; serious matter |
7511 |
| 大事 |
だいじ |
(adj-na,n) important; valuable; serious matter |
7511 |
| 文部省 |
もんぶしょう |
(n) (abbr) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
7511 |
| 事象 |
じしょう |
(n) phenomenon; matter |
7576 |
| 商事 |
しょうじ |
(n) commercial affairs |
7739 |
| 小文字 |
こもじ |
(n) lower case letters |
7935 |
| 縄文 |
じょうもん |
(n) Jomon period; straw-rope pattern |
7973 |
| 古事記 |
こじき |
(n) Japan's Ancient Chronicle |
8234 |
| 光文社 |
こうぶんしゃ |
Koubunsha (publisher) |
8717 |
| 事務次官 |
じむじかん |
(n) permanent vice-president; undersecretary; vice-minister |
8809 |
| 事物 |
じぶつ |
(n) things; affairs |
8839 |
| 不祥事 |
ふしょうじ |
(n) scandal; deplorable event |
8870 |
| 事柄 |
ことがら |
(n) matter; thing; affair; circumstance |
8876 |
| 文字通り |
もじどおり |
(n-adv) literally |
9010 |
| 条文 |
じょうぶん |
(n) text; provisions (act, treaty) |
9015 |
| 文脈 |
ぶんみゃく |
(n) context |
9038 |
| 家事 |
かじ |
(n) housework; domestic chores |
9249 |
| 物事 |
ものごと |
(n) things; everything |
9249 |
| 大文字 |
おおもじ |
(n) (1) upper case letters; large characters |
9265 |
| 大文字 |
だいもんじ |
(n) (1) upper case letters; large characters; (2) the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"; (3) huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year |
9265 |
| 事変 |
じへん |
(n) accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency |
9293 |
| 文句 |
もんく |
(n) phrase; complaint |
9633 |
| 昇叙 |
しょうじょ |
(n) promotion; advancement |
9898 |
| 議事堂 |
ぎじどう |
(n) Diet building |
10037 |
| 文化庁 |
ぶんかちょう |
(Japan's) Agency for Cultural Affairs |
10080 |
| 文治 |
ぶんじ |
(n) civil administration |
10279 |
| 文治 |
ぶんち |
(n) civil administration |
10279 |
| 原文 |
げんぶん |
(n) the text; original |
10368 |
| 執事 |
しつじ |
(n) steward; butler; court official; deacon |
10387 |
| 叙 |
じょ |
(n,vs) relation; narration; description |
10410 |
| 構文 |
こうぶん |
(n) syntax; sentence structure |
10725 |
| 叙任 |
じょにん |
(n) investiture |
10725 |
| 全文 |
ぜんぶん |
(n) whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph |
10830 |
| 返事 |
へんじ |
(n,vs) reply; answer |
11011 |
| 火事 |
かじ |
(n) fire; conflagration |
11112 |
| 時事 |
じじ |
(n) events of the day; current affairs |
11319 |
| 文体 |
ぶんたい |
(n) literary style |
11423 |
| 公文書 |
こうぶんしょ |
(n) official document; archives |
11461 |
| 文系 |
ぶんけい |
(n) humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts |
11506 |
| 文理 |
ぶんり |
(n) literature and science; context; (line of) reasoning |
11586 |
| 神事 |
しんじ |
(n) Shinto rituals |
11710 |
| 碑文 |
ひぶん |
(n) inscription; epitaph; epigraph |
11817 |
| 事由 |
じゆう |
(n) reason; cause |
11892 |
| 国文学 |
こくぶんがく |
(n) Japanese literature |
11981 |
| 文楽 |
ぶんらく |
(n) Japanese puppet theatre; Bunraku |
12295 |
| 叙事詩 |
じょじし |
(n) descriptive poetry; epic poem |
12374 |
| 文科 |
ぶんか |
(n) (1) literary course; (2) the arts |
12374 |
| 重文 |
じゅうぶん |
(n) (abbr) compound sentence; important national treasure |
12401 |
| 文人 |
ぶんじん |
(n) person of letters; literary person |
12467 |
| 漢文 |
かんぶん |
(n) Chinese (classical) literature |
12510 |
| 有事 |
ゆうじ |
(n) emergency |
12592 |
| 文言 |
もんごん |
(n) wording |
12837 |
| 古文書 |
こぶんしょ |
(n) ancient documents; archives |
12899 |
| 古文書 |
こもんじょ |
(n) ancient documents; archives |
12899 |
| 古文 |
こぶん |
(n) ancient writing; classical literature |
13146 |
| 古文 |
こもん |
(n) ancient writing; classical literature |
13146 |
| 公文 |
こうぶん |
(n) official document; archives |
13222 |
| 文中 |
ぶんちゅう |
(n) in the document |
13273 |
| 文武 |
ぶんぶ |
(n) literary and military arts; the pen and the sword |
13381 |
| 何事 |
なにごと |
(n) what; something; everything; nothing (with neg. verb) |
13449 |
| 議事 |
ぎじ |
(n) proceedings |
13449 |
| 事後 |
じご |
(n) after-; post-; ex- |
13525 |
| 故事 |
こじ |
(n) origin; historical fact; tradition |
13595 |
| 一文字 |
いちもんじ |
(n) straight line; beeline |
13896 |
| 海事 |
かいじ |
(n) maritime affairs |
14220 |
| 参事官 |
さんじかん |
(n) councillor |
14543 |
| 文面 |
ぶんめん |
(n) content of a letter |
14553 |
| 文官 |
ぶんかん |
(n) civil official |
14624 |
| 悪事 |
あくじ |
(n) evil deed; crime; wickedness |
14861 |
| 十文字 |
じゅうもんじ |
(adj-no,n) a cross; cruciform |
14911 |
| 文教 |
ぶんきょう |
(n) education; culture |
14938 |
| 文殊 |
もんじゅ |
(n) Manjusri; Transcendent Wisdom (Buddhist deity) |
15041 |
| 文集 |
ぶんしゅう |
(n) anthology |
15149 |
| 作文 |
さくぶん |
(n) composition; writing |
15187 |
| 人事院 |
じんじいん |
(n) National Personnel Authority |
15353 |
| 惨事 |
さんじ |
(n) disaster; horrible accident |
15502 |
| 文房具 |
ぶんぼうぐ |
(n) stationery |
15627 |
| 事案 |
じあん |
(n) concern; circumstance which is becoming a problem |
15654 |
| 和文 |
わぶん |
(n) Japanese text; sentence in Japanese |
15665 |
| 文筆 |
ぶんぴつ |
(n) literary art; literary activity; writing |
15714 |
| 領事 |
りょうじ |
(n) consul |
15714 |
| 旺文社 |
おうぶんしゃ |
Oubunsha (publisher) |
15803 |
| 一文 |
いちぶん |
(n) a sentence |
15865 |