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| Entry |
Reading |
English |
Rank |
| 語 |
ご |
(n,n-suf) language; word |
116 |
| 英語 |
えいご |
(n) the English language |
331 |
| 物語 |
ものがたり |
(n) tale; story; legend |
543 |
| 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 |
| 性格 |
せいかく |
(n) character; personality |
927 |
| 語る |
かたる |
(v5r) to talk; to tell; to recite |
1110 |
| 用語 |
ようご |
(n) term; terminology |
1262 |
| 資格 |
しかく |
(n) qualifications; requirements; capabilities |
1462 |
| 規格 |
きかく |
(n) standard; norm |
1742 |
| 価格 |
かかく |
(n) price; value; cost |
1826 |
| 格 |
かく |
(n,n-suf) status; character; case |
2165 |
| 本格 |
ほんかく |
(n) propriety; fundamental rules |
2246 |
| 合格 |
ごうかく |
(n,vs) success; passing (e.g. exam); eligibility |
2255 |
| 昇格 |
しょうかく |
(n) raising of status |
2480 |
| 格闘 |
かくとう |
(n,vs) hand-to-hand fighting; grappling |
2650 |
| 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 |
| 原語 |
げんご |
(n) original word; original language |
3703 |
| ラテン語 |
ラテンご |
(n) Latin |
4057 |
| 単語 |
たんご |
(n) word; vocabulary; (usually) single-character word |
4260 |
| 格闘技 |
かくとうぎ |
(n) sports or disciplines which involve fighting without weapons |
4299 |
| 語源 |
ごげん |
(n) word root; word derivation; etymology |
4446 |
| 人格 |
じんかく |
(n) personality; character; individuality |
4778 |
| 国語 |
こくご |
(n) national language |
4832 |
| 中国語 |
ちゅうごくご |
(n) Chinese language |
5586 |
| 格付け |
かくずけ |
(ik) (n,vs) rating; classification; allocation; grading |
6251 |
| 格付け |
かくづけ |
(n,vs) rating; classification; allocation; grading |
6251 |
| 降格 |
こうかく |
(n,vs) demotion |
6264 |
| 語尾 |
ごび |
(n) (inflected) end of a word |
6593 |
| 格好 |
かっこう |
(adj-no,adj-na,n) shape; form; posture; suitability; moderateness (in price); appearance; manner |
6611 |
| 格納 |
かくのう |
(n,vs) storage; housing for equipment and machines; putting into computer memory |
7373 |
| 骨格 |
こっかく |
(n) physique; build; frame |
7381 |
| 語族 |
ごぞく |
(n) family of languages |
7432 |
| 格差 |
かくさ |
(n) qualitative difference; disparity |
7668 |
| 源氏物語 |
げんじものがたり |
the Tale of the Genji |
7841 |
| 体格 |
たいかく |
(n) physique; constitution |
7909 |
| 語彙 |
ごい |
(n) vocabulary; glossary |
7922 |
| 厳格 |
げんかく |
(adj-na,n) severe; rigid; strictness; rigor; austerity |
8091 |
| 失格 |
しっかく |
(n) disqualification; elimination; incapacity (legal) |
8279 |
| 格子 |
こうし |
(n) lattice |
8706 |
| 格上げ |
かくあげ |
(n) status elevation |
8941 |
| 造語 |
ぞうご |
(n) coined word |
8950 |
| 語学 |
ごがく |
(n) language study |
8994 |
| 訳語 |
やくご |
(n) terms used in translation |
9748 |
| 格下げ |
かくさげ |
(n) demotion; downgrading |
10235 |
| 母語 |
ぼご |
(n) mother tongue |
10619 |
| 格段 |
かくだん |
(adj-na,adv,n) special; exceptional; remarkable |
10850 |
| 語り |
かたり |
(n) talking |
11119 |
| 略語 |
りゃくご |
(n) abbreviation; acronym |
11933 |
| 主語 |
しゅご |
(n) (gram) subject |
12052 |
| 俗語 |
ぞくご |
(n) colloquialism; colloquial language |
12270 |
| 物語る |
ものがたる |
(v5r) to tell; to indicate |
12764 |
| 漢語 |
かんご |
(n) Chinese word; Sino-Japanese word |
12994 |
| 標語 |
ひょうご |
(n) motto; slogan; catchword |
13250 |
| 敬語 |
けいご |
(n) honorific; term of respect |
13273 |
| 口語 |
こうご |
(n) colloquial language |
13381 |
| 格安 |
かくやす |
(adj-na,n) cheap; reasonable |
13558 |
| 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 |
| 神格 |
しんかく |
(n) divinity |
14284 |
| 格式 |
かくしき |
(n) social status |
14303 |
| 対義語 |
たいぎご |
(n) word's opposite |
14331 |
| 格納庫 |
かくのうこ |
(n) (aircraft) hangar |
14553 |
| 仏語 |
ふつご |
(n) French language |
14624 |
| 仏語 |
ぶつご |
(n) Buddhist term |
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 |
| 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 |
| 別格 |
べっかく |
(n) special; extraordinary |
15679 |
| 語録 |
ごろく |
(n) analects; sayings |
15789 |
| 独語 |
どくご |
(n) monologue; soliloquy |
15907 |
| 破格 |
はかく |
(adj-na,n) extraordinary; special |
15925 |
| 語法 |
ごほう |
(n) diction; grammar; syntax |
16112 |
| 語形 |
ごけい |
(n) word form |
16248 |
| 述語 |
じゅつご |
(n) predicate |
16265 |
| 弾き語り |
ひきがたり |
(n) singing to one's own accompaniment |
16546 |
| 古語 |
こご |
(n) obsolete word; old proverb; ancient (Japanese) language |
16902 |
| 文語 |
ぶんご |
(n) written language; literary language |
17023 |
| 家格 |
かかく |
(n) family status |
17154 |
| 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 |
| 同格 |
どうかく |
(adj-na,n) the same rank; equality; apposition |
17366 |
| 語頭 |
ごとう |
(n) first part of a word |
17440 |
| 死語 |
しご |
(n) dead language; obsolete word |
17612 |
| 語り口 |
かたりくち |
(n) way of reciting; way of telling a story |
17775 |
| 勅語 |
ちょくご |
(n) imperial rescript |
18155 |
| 季語 |
きご |
(n) seasonal word (in haiku) |
18205 |
| 適格 |
てきかく |
(n) eligible; qualified; competent |
18243 |
| 適格 |
てっかく |
(n) eligible; qualified; competent |
18243 |
| 格言 |
かくげん |
(n) aphorism |
18728 |
| 語順 |
ごじゅん |
(n) word order |
18762 |
| 主格 |
しゅかく |
(n) (gram) nominative case |
18851 |
| 豪語 |
ごうご |
(n,vs) boasting; bombast |
19211 |
| 論語 |
ろんご |
(n) the Analects of Confucius |
19269 |
| 語感 |
ごかん |
(n) sense of language |
19579 |
| 日本工業規格 |
にほんこうぎょうきかく |
(n) Japan Industrial Standards (JIS) |
19579 |
| 人語 |
じんご |
(n) human speech |
20128 |
| 対格 |
たいかく |
(n) (gram) accusative case |
20278 |
| 語義 |
ごぎ |
(n) meaning of a word |
20325 |
| 祖語 |
そご |
(n) a parent language |
20854 |
| 語り合う |
かたりあう |
(v5u) to talk together |
20989 |
| 語末 |
ごまつ |
(n) end of a word; suffix |
21314 |
| 品格 |
ひんかく |
(n) dignity |
21489 |
| 語り手 |
かたりて |
(n) speaker; narrator; reciter |
22113 |
| 風格 |
ふうかく |
(n) personality; style; appearance |
22615 |
| 外語 |
がいご |
(n) foreign language |
22840 |
| 類義語 |
るいぎご |
(n) synonym |
22890 |
| 印欧語 |
いんおうご |
(n) Indo-European languages |
23399 |
| 格別 |
かくべつ |
(adj-na,adv,n) exceptional |
23460 |
| 語呂 |
ごろ |
(n) the sound; euphony |
24363 |
| 和語 |
わご |
(n) native Japanese words |
24627 |
| 補語 |
ほご |
(n) (gram) complement |
25286 |
| 格調 |
かくちょう |
(n) noble; dignified |
25630 |
| 同義語 |
どうぎご |
(n) synonym |
25767 |
| 欠格 |
けっかく |
(n) rejection; disqualification |
26648 |
| 対語 |
ついご |
(n) pairing of (opposite) words; antonym |
26817 |
| 軍記物語 |
ぐんきものがたり |
(n) war chronicle |
26991 |
| 複合語 |
ふくごうご |
(n) compound word |
27058 |
| 類語 |
るいご |
(n) synonym |
27521 |
| 梵語 |
ぼんご |
(n) Sanskrit |
27617 |
| 語根 |
ごこん |
(n) root (origin) of a word |
27703 |
| 術語 |
じゅつご |
(n) technical term |
27801 |
| 成語 |
せいご |
(n) set phrase; idiomatic expression |
28487 |
| 擬態語 |
ぎたいご |
(n) mimetic word (not mimicking sound) |
29736 |
| 夢物語 |
ゆめものがたり |
(n) account of a dream; empty dream; fantastic story |
30195 |
| 語らう |
かたらう |
(v5u) to talk; to tell; to recite; to pledge; to conspire with |
30433 |
| 口語体 |
こうごたい |
(n) colloquial style |
30969 |
| 失語 |
しつご |
(n) forgetting the words; inability to pronounce a word correctly |
32501 |
| 法語 |
ほうご |
(n) Buddhist sermon |
32964 |
| 一語 |
いちご |
(n) one word |
33111 |
| 言語道断 |
ごんごどうだん |
(adj-na,n) outrageous; preposterous; inexcusable; absurd |
33282 |
| 失語症 |
しつごしょう |
(n) loss of speech |
33282 |
| 夢語り |
ゆめがたり |
(n) account of a dream |
33830 |
| 語調 |
ごちょう |
(n) tone (of voice); note; accent |
34034 |
| 私語 |
しご |
(n) whispering; secret talk |
35139 |
| 反語 |
はんご |
(n) irony; rhetorical question; antonym; word in reverse |
35139 |
| 卑語 |
ひご |
(n) slang; vulgar expression; vulgarism |
35139 |
| 米語 |
べいご |
(n) American English (lang) |
35139 |
| 格好いい |
かっこいい |
(io) (adj-na) attractive; good-looking; stylish; "cool" |
35357 |
| 格好いい |
かっこういい |
(io) (adj-na) attractive; good-looking; stylish; "cool" |
35357 |
| 文語文 |
ぶんごぶん |
(n) literary language |
35577 |
| 邦語 |
ほうご |
(n) one's native language; Japanese |
35577 |
| 連語 |
れんご |
(n) compound word; phrase |
35778 |
| 語釈 |
ごしゃく |
(n) interpretation of a word |
35968 |
| 格子戸 |
こうしど |
(n) lattice door |
36169 |
| 語弊 |
ごへい |
(n) faulty expression |
36396 |