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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 言う |
いう |
(v5u) to say |
128 |
| 言う |
ゆう |
(v5u) to say |
128 |
| 小説 |
しょうせつ |
(n) novel; story |
424 |
| 説 |
せつ |
(n,n-suf) theory |
600 |
| 言語 |
げんご |
(n) language |
607 |
| 言葉 |
ことば |
(n) word(s); language; speech |
736 |
| 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 |
| 発言 |
はつげん |
(n) utterance; speech; proposal |
1270 |
| 宣言 |
せんげん |
(n,vs) declaration; proclamation; announcement |
1558 |
| 方言 |
ほうげん |
(n) dialect |
2914 |
| 言及 |
げんきゅう |
(n,vs) reference |
5271 |
| 説得 |
せっとく |
(n) persuasion |
5428 |
| 予言 |
かねごと |
(n) prediction; promise; prognostication |
5461 |
| 予言 |
よげん |
(n) prediction; promise; prognostication |
5461 |
| 証言 |
しょうげん |
(n,vs) evidence; testimony |
5510 |
| 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 |
| 言動 |
げんどう |
(n) speech and conduct |
6260 |
| 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 |
| 言 |
げん |
(n) word; remark; statement |
6710 |
| 一言 |
いちげん |
(n) single word |
7279 |
| 一言 |
いちごん |
(n) single word |
7279 |
| 一言 |
ひとこと |
(n) single word |
7279 |
| 遺言 |
ゆいごん |
(n) will; testament; last request |
7827 |
| 助言 |
じょげん |
(n) advice; suggestion |
8151 |
| 助言 |
じょごん |
(n) advice; suggestion |
8151 |
| 公言 |
こうげん |
(n) declaration; profession |
8359 |
| 預言 |
よげん |
(n) prophecy |
8649 |
| 大納言 |
だいなごん |
(n) chief councillor of state |
9041 |
| 学説 |
がくせつ |
(n) theory |
9259 |
| 言論 |
げんろん |
(n) discussion |
9449 |
| 説話 |
せつわ |
(n) tale; narrative |
9940 |
| 明言 |
めいげん |
(n) declaration; statement |
10328 |
| 進言 |
しんげん |
(n) proposal; counsel; advice (to a superior) |
10344 |
| 提言 |
ていげん |
(n) proposal; motion |
10396 |
| 言い方 |
いいかた |
(n) speaking style |
10537 |
| 異説 |
いせつ |
(n) different opinion |
10549 |
| 通説 |
つうせつ |
(n) (obs) prevailing view; common opinion |
10605 |
| 多言 |
たげん |
(n,vs) talkativeness; verbosity; garrulity |
10883 |
| 説教 |
せっきょう |
(n) propound; preach; sermon |
11372 |
| 過言 |
かごん |
(n) exaggeration; saying too much |
11730 |
| 狂言 |
きょうげん |
(n) play; drama; make-believe |
11817 |
| 真言 |
しんごん |
(n) mantra; quintessential word; Mantrayana; Shingon, Sino-Japanese esoteric Buddhism, originating in the eight century |
11924 |
| 言い換える |
いいかえる |
(v1) to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword |
12157 |
| 文言 |
もんごん |
(n) wording |
12837 |
| 言い渡す |
いいわたす |
(v5s) to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order |
13543 |
| 暴言 |
ぼうげん |
(n) reckless remark; rash remark; abusive language; thoughtless words |
13636 |
| 名言 |
めいげん |
(n) wise saying |
13825 |
| 定説 |
ていせつ |
(n) established theory |
13864 |
| 代言 |
だいげん |
(n) advocacy; pleading by proxy; speaking for another; attorney |
14126 |
| 伝言 |
つてごと |
(n,vs) verbal message; rumor; word |
14861 |
| 伝言 |
でんごん |
(n,vs) verbal message; rumor; word |
14861 |
| 俗説 |
ぞくせつ |
(n) common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition |
14938 |
| 言い回し |
いいまわし |
(n) expression; phraseology |
15079 |
| 無言 |
むごん |
(n) silence |
16439 |
| 論説 |
ろんせつ |
(n) editorial; dissertation |
16546 |
| 言い伝え |
いいつたえ |
(n) tradition; legend |
16730 |
| 言うまでもない |
いうまでもない |
(adj,exp) it goes without saying; there is no need to say so, but of course; it is needless to say; it need scarcely be said |
16770 |
| 讒言 |
ざんげん |
(n) false charge; slander; defamation |
16839 |
| 図説 |
ずせつ |
(n) illustration; diagram |
16880 |
| 序説 |
じょせつ |
(n) introduction |
17407 |
| 言い訳 |
いいわけ |
(n,vs) excuse; explanation |
17505 |
| 断言 |
だんげん |
(n,vs) assertion; declaration; affirmation |
17636 |
| 言い放つ |
いいはなつ |
(v5t) to declare |
17941 |
| 言い残す |
いいのこす |
(v5s) to leave word with (a person); to state in ones will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention |
18406 |
| 苦言 |
くげん |
(n) candid (frank) advice; exhortation |
18701 |
| 格言 |
かくげん |
(n) aphorism |
18728 |
| 説法 |
せっぽう |
(n) a lecture; (Buddhist) sermon; preaching; moralizing |
19044 |
| 言霊 |
ことだま |
(n) soul or power of language |
19310 |
| 言説 |
げんせつ |
(n) remark; statement |
19375 |
| 社説 |
しゃせつ |
(n) editorial; leading article |
19629 |
| 合言葉 |
あいことば |
(n) password; watchword |
20128 |
| 自説 |
じせつ |
(n) one's personal opinion |
20510 |
| 物言い |
ものいい |
(n) manner of speaking; objection; way of speaking; rumor; quarrel; protest |
20782 |
| 言わば |
いわば |
(adv) so to speak |
21314 |
| 伝言板 |
でんごんばん |
(n) message board |
21314 |
| 言行 |
げんこう |
(n) speech and behaviour |
21353 |
| 口説く |
くどく |
(v5k) to seduce; to make a play |
21530 |
| 地動説 |
ちどうせつ |
(n) heliocentric (Copernican) theory |
21889 |
| 花言葉 |
はなことば |
(n) language of flowers |
22057 |
| 言明 |
げんめい |
(n) declaration; statement; assertion |
22057 |
| 言い出す |
いいだす |
(v5s) to start talking; to speak; to tell; to propose; to suggest; to break the ice |
22615 |
| 言い分 |
いいぶん |
(n) one's say; one's point; complaint; excuse |
22687 |
| 失言 |
しつげん |
(n,vs) using improper words; verbal slip |
22749 |
| 言い表す |
いいあらわす |
(v5s) to express |
22804 |
| 言い換え |
いいかえ |
(n) putting in other words |
22948 |
| 詳説 |
しょうせつ |
(n) detailed explanation |
22992 |
| 逆説 |
ぎゃくせつ |
(n) paradox |
23520 |
| 言い張る |
いいはる |
(v5r) to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying |
23635 |
| 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 |
| 遊説 |
ゆうぜい |
(n,vs) election tour; election campaign; stumping |
24495 |
| 戯言 |
ぎげん |
(n) nonsense; silly things; joke |
24699 |
| 戯言 |
ざれごと |
(n) nonsense; silly things; joke |
24699 |
| 戯言 |
たわごと |
(n) nonsense; silly things; joke |
24699 |
| 話し言葉 |
はなしことば |
(n) spoken word |
25224 |
| 言い寄る |
いいよる |
(v5r) to court; to woo; to approach defiantly |
25554 |
| 独り言 |
ひとりごと |
(n) a soliloquy; a monologue; speaking to oneself |
25554 |
| 天動説 |
てんどうせつ |
(n) Ptolemaic theory |
26001 |
| 用言 |
ようげん |
(n) declinable word |
26240 |
| 言い伝える |
いいつたえる |
(v1) to send word |
26730 |
| 言い返す |
いいかえす |
(v5s) to repeat; to talk back; to answer back |
26730 |
| 巷説 |
こうせつ |
(n) gossip; talk about town |
26730 |
| 仏説 |
ぶっせつ |
(n) Buddha's teaching |
26893 |
| 言い当てる |
いいあてる |
(v1) to guess right |
27058 |
| 総説 |
そうせつ |
(n) review article; general remarks |
27330 |
| 合い言葉 |
あいことば |
(n) password; watchword |
27617 |
| 片言 |
かたこと |
(n) a smattering; talk like a baby; speak haltingly |
27703 |
| 片言 |
へんげん |
(n) brief remark; few words |
27703 |
| 力説 |
りきせつ |
(n,vs) insistence; (major) emphasis; stress |
27703 |
| 雑言 |
ぞうごん |
(n) foul language; abuse |
27901 |
| 書き言葉 |
かきことば |
(n) the written word; the written language |
28008 |
| 言いなり |
いいなり |
(n) doing as one is told; yes man |
28200 |
| 体言 |
たいげん |
(n) uninflected word |
28681 |
| 流言 |
りゅうげん |
(n) groundless rumor |
28975 |
| 言い合う |
いいあう |
(v5u) to quarrel |
29190 |
| 新説 |
しんせつ |
(n) new theory |
29190 |
| 虚言 |
きょげん |
(n) falsehood |
29316 |
| 言い争う |
いいあらそう |
(v5u) to quarrel; to dispute |
29410 |
| 直言 |
ちょくげん |
(n) plain speaking |
29632 |
| 狂言回し |
きょうげんまわし |
(n) a supporting, but indispensable role |
29851 |
| 言い切る |
いいきる |
(v5r) to declare; to assert; to state definitively |
29962 |
| 小言 |
こごと |
(n) scolding; fault-finding |
30688 |
| 祝言 |
しゅうげん |
(n) wedding celebration |
30832 |
| 言いつける |
いいつける |
(v1) to tell; to tell on (someone); to order; to charge; to direct |
31088 |
| 箴言 |
しんげん |
(n) proverb; maxim |
31088 |
| 大和言葉 |
やまとことば |
(n) the ancient or primordial Japanese language |
31224 |
| 御言 |
みこと |
(n) the spoken words of the emperor or a noble |
31368 |
| 性善説 |
せいぜんせつ |
(n) belief that human nature is fundamentally good |
31648 |
| 寝言 |
ねごと |
(n) talking in sleep; nonsense |
31784 |
| 建言 |
けんげん |
(n,vs) right to speak; offering one's opinion to one's superior; proposal |
31930 |
| 放言 |
ほうげん |
(n) careless remark |
32501 |
| 換言 |
かんげん |
(n) in other words |
32648 |
| 言い聞かせる |
いいきかせる |
(v1) to tell someone to do something; to warn; to persuade; to instruct |
32784 |
| 言語道断 |
ごんごどうだん |
(adj-na,n) outrageous; preposterous; inexcusable; absurd |
33282 |
| 言上 |
ごんじょう |
(n) telling; stating |
33462 |
| 物言う |
ものいう |
(v5u) to talk; to carry meaning |
33636 |
| 説き伏せる |
ときふせる |
(v1) to confute; to argue down |
33830 |
| 誓言 |
せいげん |
(n,vs) attestation; attest; vow or oath (made to the gods) |
34034 |
| 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 |
| 前言 |
ぜんげん |
(n) previous remarks |
35139 |
| 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 |