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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 文化 |
ぶんか |
(n) culture; civilization |
281 |
| 文字 |
もじ |
(n) letter (of alphabet); character |
545 |
| 文字 |
もんじ |
(n) letter (of alphabet); character |
545 |
| 先 |
さき |
(adj-no,n,n-suf,pref) (1) previous; prior; former; (2) point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle; head (of a line); (3) destination; (4) the first priority; the future; objective; sequel; remainder; the other party |
706 |
| 先 |
せん |
(adj-no,n) the future; priority; precedence; former; previous; old; late |
706 |
| 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 |
| 先代 |
せんだい |
(n) family predecessor; previous age; previous generation |
1082 |
| 文献 |
ぶんけん |
(n) literature; books (reference) |
1219 |
| 注意 |
ちゅうい |
(n,vs) caution; being careful; attention (heed); warning; advice |
1350 |
| 先生 |
せんせい |
(n) teacher; master; doctor |
1598 |
| 文化財 |
ぶんかざい |
(n) cultural assets; cultural property |
1725 |
| 注目 |
ちゅうもく |
(n,vs) notice; attention; observation |
1772 |
| 脚注 |
きゃくちゅう |
(n) footnote |
1939 |
| 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 |
| 英文 |
えいぶん |
(n) sentence in English |
2811 |
| 注 |
ちゅう |
(n,vs) annotation; explanatory note |
2896 |
| 文章 |
ぶんしょう |
(n) sentence; article |
2905 |
| 優先 |
ゆうせん |
(n,vs) preference; priority |
3076 |
| 論文 |
ろんぶん |
(n) thesis; essay; treatise; paper |
3111 |
| 天文学 |
てんもんがく |
(n) astronomy |
3264 |
| 先頭 |
せんとう |
(n) head; lead; vanguard; first |
3333 |
| 文学部 |
ぶんがくぶ |
(n) department (faculty) of literature |
3495 |
| 先輩 |
せんぱい |
(n) senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer |
3732 |
| 先行 |
せんこう |
(n,vs) preceding; going first |
3844 |
| 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 |
| 先端 |
せんたん |
(n) pointed end; tip; fine point; spearhead; cusp; vanguard; advanced; leading edge |
4118 |
| 先発 |
せんぱつ |
(n,vs) forerunner; advance party; going on ahead |
4569 |
| 文法 |
ぶんぽう |
(n) grammar |
4677 |
| 天文台 |
てんもんだい |
(n) astronomical observatory |
4705 |
| 注ぐ |
そそぐ |
(v5g) to pour (into); to irrigate; to pay; to fill; to feed (e.g. a fire) |
5053 |
| 注ぐ |
つぐ |
(v5g) to pour (into); to irrigate; to pay; to fill; to feed (e.g. a fire) |
5053 |
| 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 |
| 先住民 |
せんじゅうみん |
(n) former inhabitant |
5598 |
| 先進 |
せんしん |
(n) seniority; advance; leadership |
6068 |
| 発注 |
はっちゅう |
(n,vs) ordering (materials); placing an order |
6192 |
| 人文 |
じんぶん |
(n) humanity; civilization; culture |
6326 |
| 人文 |
じんもん |
(n) humanity; civilization; culture |
6326 |
| 文政 |
ぶんせい |
(n) educational policies or administration |
6799 |
| 祖先 |
そせん |
(n) ancestor |
7196 |
| 先立つ |
さきだつ |
(v5t) to lead; to precede; to die before someone; to go before; to take precedence |
7264 |
| 注文 |
ちゅうもん |
(n,vs) order; request |
7389 |
| 注釈 |
ちゅうしゃく |
(n) notes; comment |
7420 |
| 先祖 |
せんぞ |
(n) ancestor |
7463 |
| 文部省 |
もんぶしょう |
(n) (abbr) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
7511 |
| 先駆 |
せんく |
(n) (1) forerunner; pioneer; outrider; precursor; (2) herald; (3) pilot car |
7827 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 注射 |
ちゅうしゃ |
(n,vs) injection |
10628 |
| 構文 |
こうぶん |
(n) syntax; sentence structure |
10725 |
| 注入 |
ちゅうにゅう |
(n,vs) pouring; injection |
10771 |
| 全文 |
ぜんぶん |
(n) whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph |
10830 |
| 注記 |
ちゅうき |
(n) annotation; explanatory note |
11269 |
| 先駆ける |
さきがける |
(v1) to be the first |
11304 |
| 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 |
| 行き先 |
いきさき |
(n) (1) destination; (2) whereabouts; address |
11742 |
| 行き先 |
ゆきさき |
(n) (1) destination; (2) whereabouts; address |
11742 |
| 碑文 |
ひぶん |
(n) inscription; epitaph; epigraph |
11817 |
| 国文学 |
こくぶんがく |
(n) Japanese literature |
11981 |
| 受注 |
じゅちゅう |
(n) accepting orders |
12015 |
| 先駆け |
さきがけ |
(n) charging ahead of others; the first to charge; pioneer; forerunner; harbinger |
12236 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 先制 |
せんせい |
(n,vs) preempt; headstart (of several runs) (baseball) |
12944 |
| 古文 |
こぶん |
(n) ancient writing; classical literature |
13146 |
| 古文 |
こもん |
(n) ancient writing; classical literature |
13146 |
| 最先端 |
さいせんたん |
(adj-no,n) ultra-fine |
13167 |
| 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 |
| 先手 |
さきて |
(n) front lines; vanguard |
13625 |
| 先手 |
せんて |
(n) (1) the first move; forestalling; initiative; (2) black player (shogi) |
13625 |
| 一文字 |
いちもんじ |
(n) straight line; beeline |
13896 |
| 文面 |
ぶんめん |
(n) content of a letter |
14553 |
| 文官 |
ぶんかん |
(n) civil official |
14624 |
| 先物 |
さきもの |
(n) futures |
14727 |
| 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 |
| 先鋒 |
せんぽう |
(n) advance guard |
15431 |
| 文房具 |
ぶんぼうぐ |
(n) stationery |
15627 |
| 和文 |
わぶん |
(n) Japanese text; sentence in Japanese |
15665 |
| 先天 |
せんてん |
(n) inherent; innate |
15714 |
| 文筆 |
ぶんぴつ |
(n) literary art; literary activity; writing |
15714 |
| 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 |
| 真っ先 |
まっさき |
(n) the head; the foremost; beginning |
15925 |
| 注意報 |
ちゅういほう |
(n) storm warning |
15952 |
| 手先 |
てさき |
(n) fingers |
16065 |
| 序文 |
じょぶん |
(n) preface; foreword |
16195 |
| 先史 |
せんし |
(n) prehistory |
16294 |
| 成文 |
せいぶん |
(n) written expression; writing |
16347 |
| 出先 |
でさき |
(n) destination |
16594 |
| 先導 |
せんどう |
(n) guidance; leadership |
16770 |
| 指先 |
ゆびさき |
(n) fingertip |
16822 |
| 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 |
| 矢先 |
やさき |
(n) arrowhead; brunt; target |
16857 |
| 国文 |
こくぶん |
(n) national literature |
16880 |
| 先勝 |
さきがち |
(n) lucky day in morning, but not afternoon; scoring the first point; winning the first game |
16880 |
| 先勝 |
せんかち |
(n) lucky day in morning, but not afternoon; scoring the first point; winning the first game |
16880 |
| 先勝 |
せんしょう |
(n) lucky day in morning, but not afternoon; scoring the first point; winning the first game |
16880 |
| 文語 |
ぶんご |
(n) written language; literary language |
17023 |
| 先取 |
せんしゅ |
(n,vs) earning the first (runs); preoccupation |
17127 |
| 文民 |
ぶんみん |
(n) civilian |
17303 |
| 散文 |
さんぶん |
(n) prose |
17530 |
| 文庫本 |
ぶんこぼん |
(n) paperback (pulp) |
17612 |
| 文壇 |
ぶんだん |
(n) literary world; literary circles |
17661 |
| 訳注 |
やくちゅう |
(n) translation with notes; translator's notes |
17685 |
| 文武両道 |
ぶんぶりょうどう |
(n) (accomplished in) both the literary and military arts |
17968 |
| 先鋭 |
せんえい |
(adj-na,n) radical; acute; sharp |
18406 |
| 先々 |
さきざき |
(n-adv,n-t) formerly; a few years ago |
18441 |
| 先々 |
まま |
well, well |
18441 |
| 先回り |
さきまわり |
(n) going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another |
18512 |
| 先例 |
せんれい |
(n) precedent |
18538 |
| 率先 |
そっせん |
(n) taking the initiative |
18538 |