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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 語 |
ご |
(n,n-suf) language; word |
116 |
| 文化 |
ぶんか |
(n) culture; civilization |
281 |
| 英語 |
えいご |
(n) the English language |
331 |
| 物語 |
ものがたり |
(n) tale; story; legend |
543 |
| 文字 |
もじ |
(n) letter (of alphabet); character |
545 |
| 文字 |
もんじ |
(n) letter (of alphabet); character |
545 |
| 言語 |
げんご |
(n) language |
607 |
| 日本語 |
にっぽんご |
(n) Japanese language |
685 |
| 日本語 |
にほんご |
(n) Japanese language |
685 |
| 文学 |
ぶんがく |
(n) literature |
741 |
| 文 |
ふみ |
(n) letter; writings |
765 |
| 文 |
ぶん |
(n) sentence |
765 |
| 文庫 |
ぶんこ |
(n) library; book collection |
1048 |
| 語る |
かたる |
(v5r) to talk; to tell; to recite |
1110 |
| 文献 |
ぶんけん |
(n) literature; books (reference) |
1219 |
| 用語 |
ようご |
(n) term; terminology |
1262 |
| 文化財 |
ぶんかざい |
(n) cultural assets; cultural property |
1725 |
| 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 |
| 天文 |
てんもん |
(n) astronomy |
2680 |
| 文明 |
ぶんめい |
(n) civilization; culture |
2713 |
| 落語 |
らくご |
(n) rakugo story; (telling) a comic story |
2782 |
| フランス語 |
フランスご |
(n) French language |
2800 |
| 英文 |
えいぶん |
(n) sentence in English |
2811 |
| 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 |
| 原語 |
げんご |
(n) original word; original language |
3703 |
| 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 |
| ラテン語 |
ラテンご |
(n) Latin |
4057 |
| 単語 |
たんご |
(n) word; vocabulary; (usually) single-character word |
4260 |
| 語源 |
ごげん |
(n) word root; word derivation; etymology |
4446 |
| 文法 |
ぶんぽう |
(n) grammar |
4677 |
| 天文台 |
てんもんだい |
(n) astronomical observatory |
4705 |
| 国語 |
こくご |
(n) national language |
4832 |
| 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 |
| 呪文 |
じゅもん |
(n) spell; charm; incantation |
5523 |
| 中国語 |
ちゅうごくご |
(n) Chinese language |
5586 |
| 人文 |
じんぶん |
(n) humanity; civilization; culture |
6326 |
| 人文 |
じんもん |
(n) humanity; civilization; culture |
6326 |
| 語尾 |
ごび |
(n) (inflected) end of a word |
6593 |
| 文政 |
ぶんせい |
(n) educational policies or administration |
6799 |
| 注文 |
ちゅうもん |
(n,vs) order; request |
7389 |
| 語族 |
ごぞく |
(n) family of languages |
7432 |
| 文部省 |
もんぶしょう |
(n) (abbr) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
7511 |
| 源氏物語 |
げんじものがたり |
the Tale of the Genji |
7841 |
| 語彙 |
ごい |
(n) vocabulary; glossary |
7922 |
| 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 |
| 光文社 |
こうぶんしゃ |
Koubunsha (publisher) |
8717 |
| 造語 |
ぞうご |
(n) coined word |
8950 |
| 語学 |
ごがく |
(n) language study |
8994 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 文句 |
もんく |
(n) phrase; complaint |
9633 |
| 訳語 |
やくご |
(n) terms used in translation |
9748 |
| 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 |
| 母語 |
ぼご |
(n) mother tongue |
10619 |
| 構文 |
こうぶん |
(n) syntax; sentence structure |
10725 |
| 全文 |
ぜんぶん |
(n) whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph |
10830 |
| 語り |
かたり |
(n) talking |
11119 |
| 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 |
| 碑文 |
ひぶん |
(n) inscription; epitaph; epigraph |
11817 |
| 略語 |
りゃくご |
(n) abbreviation; acronym |
11933 |
| 国文学 |
こくぶんがく |
(n) Japanese literature |
11981 |
| 主語 |
しゅご |
(n) (gram) subject |
12052 |
| 俗語 |
ぞくご |
(n) colloquialism; colloquial language |
12270 |
| 文楽 |
ぶんらく |
(n) Japanese puppet theatre; Bunraku |
12295 |
| 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 |
| 物語る |
ものがたる |
(v5r) to tell; to indicate |
12764 |
| 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 |
| 漢語 |
かんご |
(n) Chinese word; Sino-Japanese word |
12994 |
| 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 |
| 標語 |
ひょうご |
(n) motto; slogan; catchword |
13250 |
| 敬語 |
けいご |
(n) honorific; term of respect |
13273 |
| 文中 |
ぶんちゅう |
(n) in the document |
13273 |
| 口語 |
こうご |
(n) colloquial language |
13381 |
| 文武 |
ぶんぶ |
(n) literary and military arts; the pen and the sword |
13381 |
| 一文字 |
いちもんじ |
(n) straight line; beeline |
13896 |
| 英単語 |
えいたんご |
(n) English word |
13970 |
| 隠語 |
いんご |
(n) (1) secret language; jargon; cant; (2) humbug |
14220 |
| 語句 |
ごく |
(n) words; phrases |
14284 |
| 対義語 |
たいぎご |
(n) word's opposite |
14331 |
| 文面 |
ぶんめん |
(n) content of a letter |
14553 |
| 仏語 |
ふつご |
(n) French language |
14624 |
| 仏語 |
ぶつご |
(n) Buddhist term |
14624 |
| 文官 |
ぶんかん |
(n) civil official |
14624 |
| ドイツ語 |
ドイツご |
(n) German language |
14861 |
| 語幹 |
ごかん |
(n) stem; root of a word |
14881 |
| 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 |
| 語り継ぐ |
かたりつぐ |
(v5g) to transmit; to hand down |
15527 |
| 熟語 |
じゅくご |
(n) idiom; idiomatic phrase; kanji compound |
15567 |
| 文房具 |
ぶんぼうぐ |
(n) stationery |
15627 |
| 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 |
| 語録 |
ごろく |
(n) analects; sayings |
15789 |
| 旺文社 |
おうぶんしゃ |
Oubunsha (publisher) |
15803 |
| 一文 |
いちぶん |
(n) a sentence |
15865 |
| 一文 |
いちもん |
(n) something insignificant; one mon (10th sen) |
15865 |
| 独語 |
どくご |
(n) monologue; soliloquy |
15907 |
| 語法 |
ごほう |
(n) diction; grammar; syntax |
16112 |
| 序文 |
じょぶん |
(n) preface; foreword |
16195 |
| 語形 |
ごけい |
(n) word form |
16248 |
| 述語 |
じゅつご |
(n) predicate |
16265 |
| 成文 |
せいぶん |
(n) written expression; writing |
16347 |
| 弾き語り |
ひきがたり |
(n) singing to one's own accompaniment |
16546 |
| 欧文 |
おうぶん |
(n) European language; foreign text |
16839 |
| 正文 |
せいぶん |
(n) the official text |
16857 |
| 文様 |
もんよう |
(n) pattern; design |
16857 |
| 国文 |
こくぶん |
(n) national literature |
16880 |
| 古語 |
こご |
(n) obsolete word; old proverb; ancient (Japanese) language |
16902 |
| 文語 |
ぶんご |
(n) written language; literary language |
17023 |
| 新語 |
しんご |
(n) new word |
17176 |
| 語呂合わせ |
ごろあわせ |
(n) rhyming game; play on words; pun |
17195 |
| 文民 |
ぶんみん |
(n) civilian |
17303 |
| 語頭 |
ごとう |
(n) first part of a word |
17440 |
| 散文 |
さんぶん |
(n) prose |
17530 |
| 死語 |
しご |
(n) dead language; obsolete word |
17612 |
| 文庫本 |
ぶんこぼん |
(n) paperback (pulp) |
17612 |
| 文壇 |
ぶんだん |
(n) literary world; literary circles |
17661 |
| 語り口 |
かたりくち |
(n) way of reciting; way of telling a story |
17775 |
| 文武両道 |
ぶんぶりょうどう |
(n) (accomplished in) both the literary and military arts |
17968 |
| 勅語 |
ちょくご |
(n) imperial rescript |
18155 |
| 季語 |
きご |
(n) seasonal word (in haiku) |
18205 |
| 語順 |
ごじゅん |
(n) word order |
18762 |