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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 小説 |
しょうせつ |
(n) novel; story |
424 |
| 説 |
せつ |
(n,n-suf) theory |
600 |
| 師 |
し |
(n) (1) teacher; master; one's mentor; (2) the Reverend |
661 |
| 伝説 |
でんせつ |
(n) tradition; legend; folklore |
810 |
| 解説 |
かいせつ |
(n,vs) explanation; commentary |
864 |
| 説明 |
せつめい |
(n,vs) explanation; exposition |
934 |
| 教師 |
きょうし |
(n) teacher (classroom) |
2088 |
| 医師 |
いし |
(n) doctor; physician |
2177 |
| 師団 |
しだん |
(n) (army) division |
2560 |
| 講師 |
こうし |
(n) lecturer |
2960 |
| 師範 |
しはん |
(adj-na,n) instructor; (fencing) teacher; model |
4431 |
| 師匠 |
ししょう |
(n) master; teacher |
4608 |
| 師事 |
しじ |
(n,vs) study under; looking up; apprentice oneself |
5032 |
| 説得 |
せっとく |
(n) persuasion |
5428 |
| 説く |
とく |
(v5k) to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade |
5700 |
| 一説 |
いっせつ |
(n) another report (opinion) |
5759 |
| 諸説 |
しょせつ |
(n) opinion |
6143 |
| 概説 |
がいせつ |
(n) general statement; outline |
6353 |
| 演説 |
えんぜつ |
(n) speech; address |
6472 |
| 仮説 |
かせつ |
(n) hypothesis; supposition; temporary; provisional; fictional |
6513 |
| 技師 |
ぎし |
(n) engineer; technician |
7461 |
| 大師 |
だいし |
(n) (Buddhism) great teacher; saint |
8437 |
| 学説 |
がくせつ |
(n) theory |
9259 |
| 牧師 |
ぼくし |
(n) pastor; minister; clergyman |
9298 |
| 宣教師 |
せんきょうし |
(n) missionary |
9583 |
| 法師 |
ほうし |
(n) Buddhist priest; bonze |
9829 |
| 説話 |
せつわ |
(n) tale; narrative |
9940 |
| 異説 |
いせつ |
(n) different opinion |
10549 |
| 通説 |
つうせつ |
(n) (obs) prevailing view; common opinion |
10605 |
| 説教 |
せっきょう |
(n) propound; preach; sermon |
11372 |
| 薬剤師 |
やくざいし |
(n) chemist; pharmacist |
11429 |
| 薬師 |
やくし |
(n) Bhaisajyaguru; Pindola; The Healing Buddha |
12246 |
| 漁師 |
りょうし |
(n) fisherman |
12374 |
| 恩師 |
おんし |
(n) one's honoured teacher |
13740 |
| 定説 |
ていせつ |
(n) established theory |
13864 |
| 薬師如来 |
やくしにょらい |
(n) Buddha able to cure all ills |
14070 |
| 軍師 |
ぐんし |
(n) strategist; tactician; schemer |
14303 |
| 占い師 |
うらないし |
(n) diviner; fortuneteller; soothsayer; palmist |
14805 |
| 俗説 |
ぞくせつ |
(n) common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition |
14938 |
| 師弟 |
してい |
(n) teacher and student |
15294 |
| 絵師 |
えし |
(n) painter; artist; painter supported by patron |
15546 |
| 導師 |
どうし |
(n) officiating monk |
16065 |
| 論説 |
ろんせつ |
(n) editorial; dissertation |
16546 |
| 図説 |
ずせつ |
(n) illustration; diagram |
16880 |
| 道化師 |
どうけし |
(n) a clown |
17325 |
| 序説 |
じょせつ |
(n) introduction |
17407 |
| 説法 |
せっぽう |
(n) a lecture; (Buddhist) sermon; preaching; moralizing |
19044 |
| 言説 |
げんせつ |
(n) remark; statement |
19375 |
| 社説 |
しゃせつ |
(n) editorial; leading article |
19629 |
| 自説 |
じせつ |
(n) one's personal opinion |
20510 |
| 老師 |
ろうし |
(n) old priest; sage; (Zen) teacher |
20854 |
| 祖師 |
そし |
(n) founder of a sect |
20989 |
| 口説く |
くどく |
(v5k) to seduce; to make a play |
21530 |
| 仏師 |
ぶっし |
(n) Buddhist image maker |
21530 |
| 地動説 |
ちどうせつ |
(n) heliocentric (Copernican) theory |
21889 |
| 猟師 |
りょうし |
(n) hunter; huntsman |
22445 |
| 詳説 |
しょうせつ |
(n) detailed explanation |
22992 |
| 師走 |
しはす |
(ik) (n) (obs) twelfth month of lunar calendar |
23038 |
| 師走 |
しわす |
(n) (obs) twelfth month of lunar calendar |
23038 |
| 逆説 |
ぎゃくせつ |
(n) paradox |
23520 |
| 私小説 |
ししょうせつ |
(n) novel narrated in the first person |
23854 |
| 私小説 |
わたくししょうせつ |
(n) novel narrated in the first person |
23854 |
| 前説 |
ぜんせつ |
(n) former opinion |
23854 |
| 風説 |
ふうせつ |
(n) rumor; gossip; hearsay |
24080 |
| 庭師 |
にわし |
(n) gardener |
24217 |
| 遊説 |
ゆうぜい |
(n,vs) election tour; election campaign; stumping |
24495 |
| 天動説 |
てんどうせつ |
(n) Ptolemaic theory |
26001 |
| 巷説 |
こうせつ |
(n) gossip; talk about town |
26730 |
| 仏説 |
ぶっせつ |
(n) Buddha's teaching |
26893 |
| 影法師 |
かげぼうし |
(n) shadow figure; silhouette |
27153 |
| 一寸法師 |
いっすんぼうし |
(n) dwarf; midget |
27330 |
| 総説 |
そうせつ |
(n) review article; general remarks |
27330 |
| 律師 |
りっし |
(n) Buddhist priest |
27433 |
| 師範代 |
しはんだい |
(n) assistant instructor |
27703 |
| 力説 |
りきせつ |
(n,vs) insistence; (major) emphasis; stress |
27703 |
| 師長 |
しちょう |
(n) teachers, superiors, and men of prominence |
28200 |
| 新説 |
しんせつ |
(n) new theory |
29190 |
| 師家 |
しか |
(n) the teacher's home |
30969 |
| 楽師 |
がくし |
(n) master musician |
31088 |
| 性善説 |
せいぜんせつ |
(n) belief that human nature is fundamentally good |
31648 |
| 師父 |
しふ |
(n) fatherly master |
32076 |
| 出師 |
すいし |
(n) dispatch of troops; expedition |
32076 |
| 殺陣師 |
たてし |
(n) man who teaches actors or actresses how to use swords |
33111 |
| 振り付け師 |
ふりつけし |
(n) choreographer |
33462 |
| 山師 |
やまし |
(n) (1) speculator; (2) adventurer; imposter; (3) prospector |
33830 |
| 説き伏せる |
ときふせる |
(v1) to confute; to argue down |
33830 |
| 所説 |
しょせつ |
(n) explanation; matter under discussion; contents; one's opinion |
34761 |
| 略説 |
りゃくせつ |
(n) outline; summary |
34761 |
| 口説き落とす |
くどきおとす |
(v5s) to persuade; to prevail upon; to win a woman's heart; to win over; to talk someone into doing |
35357 |
| 仕事師 |
しごとし |
(n) workman; enterpriser; schemer |
35357 |
| 謬説 |
びゅうせつ |
(n) fallacy; fallacious argument |
35357 |
| 性悪説 |
せいあくせつ |
(n) the view of human nature as fundamentally depraved |
35778 |
| 講説 |
こうせつ |
(n) explanation (by lecture) |
35968 |
| 香具師 |
こうぐし |
(n) master perfume maker |
36169 |
| 香具師 |
やし |
(n) showman; charlatan; faker; quack |
36169 |
| 辻説法 |
つじせっぽう |
(n) street preaching |
36169 |
| 師道 |
しどう |
(n) duty of a teacher |
37130 |
| 流説 |
りゅうせつ |
(n) groundless rumor; false report |
37405 |
| 流説 |
るせつ |
(n) groundless rumor; false report |
37405 |
| 師僧 |
しそう |
(n) priestly teacher |
37706 |
| 先師 |
せんし |
(n) former teacher |
37706 |
| 珍説 |
ちんせつ |
(n) novel idea; strange theory |
38001 |
| 鋳物師 |
いものし |
(n) a caster or founder |
38280 |
| 京師 |
けいし |
(n) capital; metropolis; old Kyoto |
38588 |
| 師伝 |
しでん |
(n) instruction from a master |
38588 |
| 師友 |
しゆう |
(n) master and friends |
38588 |
| 王師 |
おうし |
(n) emperor's teacher; imperial army |
39227 |
| 実説 |
じっせつ |
(n) true story |
39227 |
| 旧師 |
きゅうし |
(n) one's old teacher; one's old master |
39571 |
| 寝業師 |
ねわざし |
(n) underhanded or Machiavelli-like person |
39571 |
| 軽業師 |
かるわざし |
(n) acrobat |
39920 |
| 師資 |
しし |
(n) relying on someone as one's teacher |
39920 |
| 荒法師 |
あらほうし |
(n) ferocious (armed) monk |
40619 |
| 説諭 |
せつゆ |
(n,vs) persuasion; convincing |
41444 |
| 占師 |
うらないし |
(n) diviner; fortuneteller; soothsayer; palmist |
41904 |
| 説経節 |
せっきょうぶし |
(n) sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen |
42342 |
| 説経 |
せっきょう |
(n) (Buddhist) lecture on the sutras |
42893 |
| 憶説 |
おくせつ |
(n) hypothesis; speculation; surmise |
44061 |
| 口説 |
くぜつ |
(n) lover's tiff |
44061 |
| 説き明かす |
ときあかす |
(v5s) to explain; to solve; to make clear |
44061 |
| 邪説 |
じゃせつ |
(n) heretical doctrine |
44709 |
| ぺてん師 |
ぺてんし |
(n) swindler; imposter; crook |
45436 |
| 業師 |
わざし |
(n) tricky wrestler; shrewd fellow |
45436 |
| 持説 |
じせつ |
(n) one's cherished opinion |
45436 |
| 叙説 |
じょせつ |
(n) explanation; interpretation |
45436 |
| 画師 |
えし |
(n) painter; artist; painter supported by patron |
46248 |
| 画師 |
がし |
(n) painter; artist; painter supported by patron |
46248 |
| 野師 |
やし |
(n) showman; charlatan; faker; quack |
46248 |
| 愚説 |
ぐせつ |
(n) foolish opinion; one's opinion |
47205 |
| 経師屋 |
きょうじや |
(n) scroll mounter; picture framer |
47205 |
| 再説 |
さいせつ |
(n) repeated explanation |
47205 |
| 師表 |
しひょう |
(n) model; pattern; paragon; leader; teacher |
47205 |
| 浮説 |
ふせつ |
(n) groundless rumor |
47205 |
| 変説 |
へんせつ |
(n) change of opinion |
47205 |
| 臆説 |
おくせつ |
(n) conjecture; hypothesis |
48294 |
| 虚説 |
きょせつ |
(n) groundless rumor |
48294 |
| 高説 |
こうせつ |
(n) your opinion |
48294 |
| 師恩 |
しおん |
(n) the kindness of a teacher |
48294 |
| 風師 |
ふうし |
(n) wind god |
48294 |
| つくつく法師 |
つくつくぼうし |
(n) Tsukutsuku-boushi semi; type of cicada |
49657 |
| 細説 |
さいせつ |
(n) detailed explanation |
49657 |
| 説き付ける |
ときつける |
(v1) to persuade |
49657 |
| 説伏 |
せっぷく |
(n) persuasion |
49657 |
| 卓説 |
たくせつ |
(n) excellent opinion |
49657 |
| 箱師 |
はこし |
(n) train or bus thief |
49657 |
| くつくつ法師 |
くつくつぼうし |
(n) Kutsukutsu-boushi semi (another name for Tsukutsuku-boushi semi); type of cicada |
51560 |
| アジ演説 |
アジえんぜつ |
(n) propaganda speech; inflammatory speech |
51560 |
| クローン選択説 |
クローンせんたくせつ |
(n) clonal selection theory |
51560 |
| フロギストン説 |
フロギストンせつ |
(n) phlogiston theory |
51560 |
| ラマルク説 |
ラマルクせつ |
(n) Lamarckism |
51560 |