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Entry Reading English Rank
役 えき (n) war; campaign; battle 217
役 やく (n,n-suf) use; service; role; position 217
取締役 とりしまりやく (n) company director; board member 1701
役割 やくわり (n) part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties 1728
現役 げんえき (n) active duty; active service 1957
市役所 しやくしょ (n) municipal office; council; city hall 2499
役場 やくば (n) town hall 3198
主役 しゅやく (n) leading part; leading actor (actress) 3706
苦手 にがて (adj-na,n) poor (at); weak (in); dislike (of) 4476
役員 やくいん (n) officer; official; executive; staff 5147
役者 やくしゃ (n) actor; actress 5220
子役 こやく (n) dramatic role for child; child actor 5223
区役所 くやくしょ (n) ward office; council (regional) 5315
役職 やくしょく (n) post; managerial position; official position 5829
退役 たいえき (n,vs) retiring from military service 6177
苦戦 くせん (n) hard fight; close game 6627
就役 しゅうえき (n,vs) placed in commission; entering servitude 6733
悪役 あくやく (n) villain; baddie; the villain's part 7077
懲役 ちょうえき (n) penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor 7083
苦しむ くるしむ (v5m) to suffer; to groan; to be worried 7115
役目 やくめ (n) duty; business 7422
代役 だいやく (n) important mission; heavy role; substitute actor; stand-in; double 7427
苦労 くろう (adj-na,n,vs) troubles; hardships 7676
役立つ やくだつ (v5t) to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose 7922
役所 やくしょ (n) government office; public office 9049
苦しめる くるしめる (v1) to torment; to harass; to inflict pain 9153
戦役 せんえき (n) war 9422
役名 やくめい (n) official title 9638
苦情 くじょう (n) complaint; troubles; objection 9748
脇役 わきやく (n) supporting role (actor); minor role 9769
苦しい くるしい (adj) painful; difficult 10033
兵役 へいえき (n) military service; conscription 10164
役柄 やくがら (n) role 10179
役務 えきむ (n) labor; service 10187
役に立つ やくにたつ (v5t) to be helpful; to be useful 10197
役人 やくにん (n) government official 10883
苦悩 くのう (n,vs) suffering; distress; affliction; anguish; agony; trouble 11054
相談役 そうだんやく (n) counselor; adviser 12005
苦痛 くつう (adj-na,n) pain; agony 12092
一役 いちやく an office; an important office 13439
一役 ひとやく (n) a part to play 13439
助役 じょやく (n) assistant official 13543
男役 おとこやく (n) male part or role 13595
荷役 にえき (n) handling cargo; loading and unloading 13716
荷役 にやく (n) handling cargo; loading and unloading 13716
配役 はいやく (n) cast (of a play) 14243
服役 ふくえき (n) penal servitude; military service 14784
苦しみ くるしみ (n) pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship 15609
使役 しえき (n,vs) employing; using; setting to work; enslavement 15679
敵役 かたきやく (n) role of the villain; the bad guy 15907
敵役 てきやく (n) role of the villain; the bad guy 15907
苦難 くなん (n) trial 16133
重役 おもやく (n) heavy responsibilities; director 16439
重役 じゅうやく (n) director; high executive 16439
端役 はやく (n) minor role 16546
共役 きょうえき (math) conjugation 17058
苦境 くきょう (n) trouble; crisis; predicament 17612
役回り やくまわり (n) role; part; (unpleasant) duty 18406
苦言 くげん (n) candid (frank) advice; exhortation 18701
苦い にがい (adj) bitter 19016
役立てる やくだてる (v1) to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account 19693
村役場 むらやくば (n) village office 20278
苦慮 くりょ (n,vs) rack one's brains 20404
苦心 くしん (n,vs) pain; trouble; anxiety; diligence; hard work 21489
苦味 くみ (n) bitterness; bitter taste 21615
苦味 にがみ (n) bitterness; bitter taste 21615
苦笑 くしょう (n,vs) bitter smile 21889
苦肉の策 くにくのさく (n) last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity 22057
軍役 ぐんえき (n) military service 22840
軍役 ぐんやく (n) military service 22840
夫役 ぶえき (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 24217
夫役 ぶやく (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 24217
労役 ろうえき (n) work; labor; toil 24915
顔役 かおやく (n) influential man; boss 25358
苦闘 くとう (n,vs) agonizing 25918
苦労人 くろうにん (n) worldly-wise man 25918
苦学 くがく (n,vs) paying one's own school expenses by working 26319
大役 たいやく (n) important task or role or duty 26398
苦笑い にがわらい (n,vs) bitter smile 27241
雑役 ざつえき (n) chore; odd job 27521
滅茶苦茶 めちゃくちゃ (adj-na,n) (uk) absurd; unreasonable; excessive; messed up; spoiled; wreaked 28008
苦渋 くじゅう (n) bitterness; mortification; difficulty in understanding; distress; affliction 28487
同役 どうやく (n) colleague 28681
苦行 くぎょう (n) penance; austerities; mortification 28780
苦楽 くらく (n) pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows 29086
無茶苦茶 むちゃくちゃ (adj-na,n) (uk) confused; jumbled; mixed up; unreasonable 29086
堅苦しい かたくるしい (adj) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff 29410
堅苦しい かたぐるしい (adj) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff 29410
見苦しい みぐるしい (adj) unsightly; ugly 29410
苦々しい にがにがしい (adj) unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous 29851
守役 もりやく (n) a nurse or nanny; guardian 30433
重苦しい おもくるしい (adj) heavy; gloomy; awkward; cumbrous; oppressive; leaden 30433
生活苦 せいかつく (n) life's struggles 31224
賦役 ふえき (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 31368
賦役 ぶやく (n) slave labour; compulsory service; forced labor; exacted service 31368
ご苦労 ごくろう (adj-na,int,n) (hon) trouble (I have put you through) 32501
苦杯 くはい (n) bitter experience (ordeal) 32501
四苦八苦 しくはっく (n,vs,exp) be in dire distress; hard put to it 32501
上役 うわやく (n) superior; senior 32784
パイプ役 パイプやく mediator 32964
苦悶 くもん (n) anguish 32964
労苦 ろうく (n) labor; toil; hardship 33111
苦し紛れ くるしまぎれ (adj-na,n) in desperation 33282
悪戦苦闘 あくせんくとう (n,vs) hard fighting 33462
暑苦しい あつくるしい (adj) sultry; sweltering 33636
息苦しい いきぐるしい (adj) choking; oppressive; suffocating 33830
気苦労 きぐろう (n) worry; care; anxiety 35357
苦汁 くじゅう (n) bitter experience 35778
苦汁 にがり (n) bittern; brine 35778
憎まれ役 にくまれやく (n) thankless role; ungracious part 36169
下役 したやく (n) underling; subordinate official 36884
難役 なんやく (n) difficult role 36884
公役 こうえき (n) public service 37405
役宅 やくたく (n) government housing for officials 37405
汚れ役 よごれやく (n) socially undesirable characters 37706
心苦しい こころぐるしい (adj) painful; be or feel sorry 37706
一苦労 ひとくろう (n) a hard time; pains 38001
老け役 ふけやく (n) (theatrical) role of old person 38001
苦役 くえき (n) hard toil 38280
能役者 のうやくしゃ (n) noh actor 38280
聞き役 ききやく (n) listener's role 38280
目茶苦茶 めちゃくちゃ (adj-na,n) (uk) absurd; unreasonable; excessive; messed up; spoiled; wreaked 38280
苦節 くせつ (n) unswerving determination 38588
在役 ざいえき (n) in prison; in the military 39227
小役人 こやくにん (n) petty official 39571
辛苦 しんく (n) hardship; toil; trouble 39920
病苦 びょうく (n) pain of sickness 40263
旅役者 たびやくしゃ (n) itinerant entertainer or troupe 40263
町役人 まちやくにん (n) municipal official 40619
免役 めんえき (n) release from office; military service, or prison 40619
苦界 くがい (n) (1) world of suffering (Buddhism); (2) life of prostitution 41039
初役 はつやく (n) first role 41039
艱難辛苦 かんなんしんく (n) trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties 41039
苦肉 くにく (n) desperation measure 41444
困苦 こんく (n) privation; hardship 41444
八苦 はっく (n) the eight pains (of Buddhism) 41444
ご苦労さん ごくろうさん (exp) I appreciate your efforts 41904
苦力 くうりい coolie 41904
千両役者 せんりょうやくしゃ (n) star (actor); prima donna; leading figure 41904
相役 あいやく (n) colleague 41904
側役 そばやく (n) personal attendant 41904
用役 ようえき (n) service 41904
苦虫 にがむし (n) making a sour face (as if having consumed a bitter bug) 42342
苦労性 くろうしょう (adj-na,n) nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature 42342
三役 さんやく (n) three highest ranks (wrestling, unions, etc) 42893
役得 やくとく (n) emoluments; perquisite; side benefit 42893
三重苦 さんじゅうく (n) triple handicap 43447
適役 てきやく (n) suitable post or role 43447
立て役者 たてやくしゃ (n) leading actor 43447
御苦労 ごくろう (adj-na,int,n) (hon) trouble (I have put you through) 44061