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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 書く |
かく |
(v5k) to write |
463 |
| 革命 |
かくめい |
(n) revolution |
1248 |
| 命 |
いのち |
(n) (mortal) life |
1473 |
| 命 |
みこと |
(n) lord; prince; words of a ruler |
1473 |
| 命 |
みょう |
(n) command; decree; life; destiny |
1473 |
| 命 |
めい |
(n) command; decree; life; destiny |
1473 |
| 司令 |
しれい |
(n) command; control; commander |
1602 |
| 図書館 |
としょかん |
(n) library |
1681 |
| 令 |
れい |
(n,n-suf,vs) command; order; dictation |
1688 |
| 命令 |
めいれい |
(n,vs) order; command; decree; directive; (software) instruction |
1787 |
| 生命 |
せいめい |
(n) life; existence |
1833 |
| 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 |
| 著書 |
ちょしょ |
(n) literary work; book |
2090 |
| 命名 |
めいめい |
(n,vs) naming; christening |
2245 |
| 書籍 |
しょせき |
(n) book; publication |
2314 |
| 書房 |
しょぼう |
(n) library; bookstore |
2599 |
| 聖書 |
せいしょ |
(n) Bible; scriptures |
2790 |
| 任命 |
にんめい |
(n) appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation |
2902 |
| 法令 |
ほうれい |
(n) laws and ordinances |
3071 |
| 命じる |
めいじる |
(v1) to order; to command; to appoint |
3492 |
| 書店 |
しょてん |
(n) bookshop |
3516 |
| 運命 |
うんめい |
(n) fate |
3923 |
| 指令 |
しれい |
(n) orders; instructions; directive |
4367 |
| 亡命 |
ぼうめい |
(n,vs) emigration; exile; flight from one's country; defection |
4614 |
| 図書 |
としょ |
(n) books |
4802 |
| 新書 |
しんしょ |
(n) new book; 17 x 11 cm paperbook book |
4823 |
| 秘書 |
ひしょ |
(n) (private) secretary |
4943 |
| 教科書 |
きょうかしょ |
(n) text book |
5225 |
| 書記 |
しょき |
(n) clerk; secretary |
5342 |
| 政令 |
せいれい |
(n) government ordinance; cabinet order |
5579 |
| 書き込み |
かきこみ |
(n,vs) writing; entry (e.g. form) |
5711 |
| 寿命 |
じゅみょう |
(n) life span |
6195 |
| 命中 |
めいちゅう |
(n) a hit |
6290 |
| 書き込む |
かきこむ |
(v5m) to fill in (writing) |
6484 |
| 書物 |
しょもつ |
(n) books |
6616 |
| 日本書紀 |
にほんしょき |
Nihon-shoki (the oldest chronicles of Japan) |
6933 |
| 辞書 |
じしょ |
(n) dictionary; lexicon |
6982 |
| 書体 |
しょたい |
(n) calligraphic style(s) |
7170 |
| 書院 |
しょいん |
(n) drawing room; study; publishing house; writing alcove |
7176 |
| 書類 |
しょるい |
(n) documents; official papers |
7324 |
| 白書 |
はくしょ |
(n) white paper |
7397 |
| 書簡 |
しょかん |
(n) letter; note; epistle |
7625 |
| 特命 |
とくめい |
(n) mission |
7815 |
| 救命 |
きゅうめい |
(n) lifesaving |
7830 |
| 書き換える |
かきかえる |
(v1) to rewrite; to renew; to transfer |
7935 |
| 律令 |
りつりょう |
(n) a statute; a law; legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models |
8037 |
| 律令 |
りつれい |
(n) a statute; a law; legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models |
8037 |
| 読書 |
どくしょ |
(n) reading |
8095 |
| 書道 |
しょどう |
(n) calligraphy |
8348 |
| 書き下ろす |
かきおろす |
(v5s) to write a play, book, filmscript, etc. |
9001 |
| 律令制 |
りつりょうせい |
(n) the ritsuryo system (of centralized authority) |
9249 |
| 使命 |
しめい |
(n) mission; errand; message |
9989 |
| 命題 |
めいだい |
(n) proposition; thesis |
10892 |
| 叢書 |
そうしょ |
(n) series (of publications); library (of literature) |
10978 |
| 省令 |
しょうれい |
(n) ministerial ordinance |
11093 |
| 致命 |
ちめい |
(n) fatal |
11093 |
| 発令 |
はつれい |
(n,vs) official announcement; proclamation |
11104 |
| 落書き |
らくがき |
(n,vs) scrawl; scribble; graffiti |
11140 |
| 肩書き |
かたがき |
(n) title; degree; address (on letter); criminal record |
11304 |
| 公文書 |
こうぶんしょ |
(n) official document; archives |
11461 |
| 存命 |
ぞんめい |
(n) being alive |
11491 |
| 命ずる |
めいずる |
(v5z) to command; to appoint |
11802 |
| 蔵書 |
ぞうしょ |
(n,vs) book collection |
12107 |
| 書記官 |
しょきかん |
(n) secretary |
12138 |
| 肩書 |
かたがき |
(n) title; degree; address (on letter); criminal record |
12177 |
| 軍令 |
ぐんれい |
(n) military command |
12374 |
| 漢書 |
かんしょ |
(n) a Chinese book; a book written in Chinese |
12434 |
| 書面 |
しょめん |
(n) document; letter |
12576 |
| 訳書 |
やくしょ |
(n) translation |
12607 |
| 司書 |
ししょ |
(n) librarian |
12679 |
| 本書 |
ほんしょ |
(n) text; script; this book |
12711 |
| 宿命 |
しゅくめい |
(n) fate; destiny; predestination |
12849 |
| 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 |
| 書き方 |
かきかた |
(n) way of writing; how to write |
12963 |
| 手書き |
てかき |
(n) (1) handwriting; (2) skilled penman |
13236 |
| 手書き |
てがき |
(n) (1) handwriting; (2) skilled penman |
13236 |
| 絶命 |
ぜつめい |
(n,vs) end of life; death |
13289 |
| 証書 |
しょうしょ |
(n) bond; deed; certificate |
13543 |
| 秘書官 |
ひしょかん |
(n) minister's secretary |
13648 |
| 書誌 |
しょし |
(n) bibliography |
13864 |
| 同書 |
どうしょ |
(n) the same book; the said book |
13864 |
| 史書 |
ししょ |
(n) history book |
13955 |
| 短命 |
たんめい |
(adj-na,n) short life |
14529 |
| 書式 |
しょしき |
(n) blank form |
14727 |
| 読み書き |
よみかき |
(n) reading and writing |
14861 |
| 国会図書館 |
こっかいとしょかん |
(n) National Diet Library; Library of Congress |
14911 |
| 延命 |
えんめい |
(n) (1) long life; longevity; (2) macrobiotics |
15112 |
| 葉書 |
はがき |
(n) postcard |
15174 |
| 令嬢 |
れいじょう |
(n) (your) daughter; young woman |
15219 |
| 古書 |
こしょ |
(n) old book; rare book |
15294 |
| 書き直す |
かきなおす |
(v5s) to write out; to make a fair copy |
15294 |
| 書写 |
しょしゃ |
(n) transcription; copying; handwriting |
15485 |
| 選書 |
せんしょ |
(n) anthology; selection of books |
15485 |
| 遺書 |
いしょ |
(n) posthumous writings |
15823 |
| 絶体絶命 |
ぜったいぜつめい |
(adj-na,n) a desperate situation; be driven into a corner |
16015 |
| 書き上げる |
かきあげる |
(v1) to write out or down; to finish writing |
16044 |
| 書状 |
しょじょう |
(n) letter; note |
16112 |
| 懸命 |
けんめい |
(adj-na,n) eagerness; earnestness; risking one's life |
16347 |
| 人命 |
じんめい |
(n) (human) life |
16629 |
| 書家 |
しょか |
(n) calligrapher; individual with good penmanship |
16770 |
| 覚書 |
おぼえがき |
(n) memo; note; memorial; protocol |
16798 |
| 助命 |
じょめい |
(n) sparing a life; clemency; reconsidering a dismissal |
16880 |
| 偽書 |
ぎしょ |
(n) spurious letter; apocryphal book; forgery |
16983 |
| 本命 |
ほんめい |
(n) favorite; sure thing; likely winner; certainty |
17023 |
| 致命傷 |
ちめいしょう |
(n) fatal wound |
17058 |
| 命日 |
めいにち |
(n) death anniversary |
17366 |
| 詔書 |
しょうしょ |
(n) imperial edict; decree |
17421 |
| 訓令 |
くんれい |
(n) directive; instructions |
17505 |
| 書評 |
しょひょう |
(n,vs) book review |
17505 |
| 一命 |
いちめい |
(n) a life; a command |
17756 |
| 辞令 |
じれい |
(n) notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc) |
17810 |
| 書法 |
しょほう |
(n) penmanship; calligraphy |
18077 |
| 司令塔 |
しれいとう |
(n) control tower; conning tower |
18183 |
| 書名 |
しょめい |
(n) pen name |
18205 |
| 横書き |
よこがき |
(n) writing horizontally |
18815 |
| 勅命 |
ちょくめい |
(n) imperial command |
18888 |
| 全書 |
ぜんしょ |
(n) complete book; complete set |
19375 |
| 一生懸命 |
いっしょうけんめい |
(adj-na,n-adv,n) very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might |
19861 |
| 余命 |
よめい |
(n) remainder of one's life; one's remaining years |
19922 |
| 長命 |
ちょうめい |
(adj-na,n) long life |
20047 |
| 投書 |
とうしょ |
(n) letter to the editor; letter from a reader; contribution |
20278 |
| 調書 |
ちょうしょ |
(n) protocol; preliminary memo |
20325 |
| 県令 |
けんれい |
(n) prefectural ordinance |
20404 |
| 書き残す |
かきのこす |
(v5s) to leave a note or document behind; to leave half-written; to leave out |
20404 |
| 経書 |
けいしょ |
(n) classic Confucian writings |
20749 |
| 正書法 |
せいしょほう |
(n) correct orthography |
20782 |
| 和書 |
わしょ |
(n) (Japanese) book bound in Japanese style |
20819 |
| 天命 |
てんめい |
(n) God's will; karma; destiny; Heaven's decree; one's life |
21177 |
| 書斎 |
しょさい |
(n) study |
21230 |
| 上書き |
うわがき |
(n) address; superscription |
21397 |
| 書林 |
しょりん |
(n) vast stock of books; bookstore |
21446 |
| 号令 |
ごうれい |
(n) order; command |
21489 |
| 伝令 |
でんれい |
(n) messenger; orderly; runner |
21615 |
| 令状 |
れいじょう |
(n) warrant; summons; written order |
21743 |
| 楷書 |
かいしょ |
(n) printed style writing |
21792 |
| 信書 |
しんしょ |
(n) letter; personal correspondence |
21972 |
| 四書 |
ししょ |
(n) the four Chinese classics |
22165 |
| 洋書 |
ようしょ |
(n) Western books |
22305 |
| 書庫 |
しょこ |
(n) archive (file) |
22341 |
| 勅書 |
ちょくしょ |
(n) imperial rescript |
22341 |
| 原書 |
げんしょ |
(n) original document |
22687 |
| 筋書き |
すじがき |
(n) synopsis; outline; plot |
22890 |
| 書き記す |
かきしるす |
(v5s) to write down; to record; to register |
22890 |
| 百科全書 |
ひゃっかぜんしょ |
(n) encyclopedia |
22890 |
| 国書 |
こくしょ |
(n) credentials; sovereign message |
23399 |
| 書き表す |
かきあらわす |
(v5s) to write out; to express; to publish |
23460 |
| 命運 |
めいうん |
(n) fate; doom |
23686 |
| 裏書 |
うらがき |
(n) endorsement; proof; note on back of the scroll |
23686 |