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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 |
| 語る |
かたる |
(v5r) to talk; to tell; to recite |
1110 |
| 用語 |
ようご |
(n) term; terminology |
1262 |
| 困難 |
こんなん |
(adj-na,n) difficulty; distress |
1757 |
| 難しい |
むずかしい |
(adj) difficult |
2084 |
| 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 |
| 非難 |
ひなん |
(n,vs) blame; attack; criticism |
4320 |
| 難 |
なん |
(n,n-suf) difficulty; hardships; defect |
4322 |
| 語源 |
ごげん |
(n) word root; word derivation; etymology |
4446 |
| 国語 |
こくご |
(n) national language |
4832 |
| 難易 |
なんい |
(n) difficulty; relative difficulty |
5451 |
| 中国語 |
ちゅうごくご |
(n) Chinese language |
5586 |
| 避難 |
ひなん |
(n,vs) taking refuge; finding shelter |
5678 |
| 難い |
かたい |
(adj,suf) difficult; hard |
6251 |
| 難い |
にくい |
(adj,suf) difficult; hard |
6251 |
| 語尾 |
ごび |
(n) (inflected) end of a word |
6593 |
| 語族 |
ごぞく |
(n) family of languages |
7432 |
| 難民 |
なんみん |
(n) refugees |
7827 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 遭難 |
そうなん |
(n) disaster; shipwreck; accident |
10350 |
| 母語 |
ぼご |
(n) mother tongue |
10619 |
| 語り |
かたり |
(n) talking |
11119 |
| 難関 |
なんかん |
(n) barrier |
11294 |
| 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 |
| 救難 |
きゅうなん |
(n) rescue; salvage |
12283 |
| 難航 |
なんこう |
(n) stormy passage |
12391 |
| 難解 |
なんかい |
(adj-na,n) difficult |
12756 |
| 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 |
| 盗難 |
とうなん |
(n) theft; robbery |
13109 |
| 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 |
| 財政難 |
ざいせいなん |
(n) economic difficulties |
13558 |
| 英単語 |
えいたんご |
(n) English word |
13970 |
| 海難 |
かいなん |
(n) shipwreck |
14164 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 難点 |
なんてん |
(n) fault; weakness |
15174 |
| 語り継ぐ |
かたりつぐ |
(v5g) to transmit; to hand down |
15527 |
| 難色 |
なんしょく |
(n) disapproval |
15527 |
| 熟語 |
じゅくご |
(n) idiom; idiomatic phrase; kanji compound |
15567 |
| 語録 |
ごろく |
(n) analects; sayings |
15789 |
| 独語 |
どくご |
(n) monologue; soliloquy |
15907 |
| 語法 |
ごほう |
(n) diction; grammar; syntax |
16112 |
| 苦難 |
くなん |
(n) trial |
16133 |
| 受難 |
じゅなん |
(n) suffering; agony; passion |
16133 |
| 語形 |
ごけい |
(n) word form |
16248 |
| 述語 |
じゅつご |
(n) predicate |
16265 |
| 無難 |
ぶなん |
(adj-na,n) safety; security |
16294 |
| 弾き語り |
ひきがたり |
(n) singing to one's own accompaniment |
16546 |
| 難所 |
なんしょ |
(n) rough spot |
16770 |
| 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 |
| 難聴 |
なんちょう |
(n) deafness |
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 |
| 災難 |
さいなん |
(n) calamity; misfortune |
18373 |
| 語順 |
ごじゅん |
(n) word order |
18762 |
| 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 |
| 難病 |
なんびょう |
(n) incurable disease |
19663 |
| 難破 |
なんぱ |
(n,vs) shipwreck |
20004 |
| 人語 |
じんご |
(n) human speech |
20128 |
| 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 |
| 語り手 |
かたりて |
(n) speaker; narrator; reciter |
22113 |
| 難読 |
なんどく |
(n) difficult to read (e.g. obscure kanji) |
22259 |
| 外語 |
がいご |
(n) foreign language |
22840 |
| 難問 |
なんもん |
(n) perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem |
22840 |
| 類義語 |
るいぎご |
(n) synonym |
22890 |
| 難なく |
なんなく |
(adv) easily |
23088 |
| 難行 |
なんぎょう |
(n) penance |
23295 |
| 難題 |
なんだい |
(n) difficult theme |
23295 |
| 印欧語 |
いんおうご |
(n) Indo-European languages |
23399 |
| 水難 |
すいなん |
(n) drowning; flood; shipwreck |
24291 |
| 語呂 |
ごろ |
(n) the sound; euphony |
24363 |
| 和語 |
わご |
(n) native Japanese words |
24627 |
| 至難 |
しなん |
(adj-na,adj-no,n) most difficult; next to impossible |
25041 |
| 補語 |
ほご |
(n) (gram) complement |
25286 |
| 気難しい |
きむずかしい |
(adj) hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious |
25554 |
| 気難しい |
きむづかしい |
(adj) hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious |
25554 |
| 同義語 |
どうぎご |
(n) synonym |
25767 |
| 殉難 |
じゅんなん |
(n) martyrdom |
26730 |
| 難攻不落 |
なんこうふらく |
(n) impregnable |
26730 |
| 多難 |
たなん |
(adj-na,n) full of troubles, difficulties |
26817 |
| 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 |
| 難曲 |
なんきょく |
(n) difficult musical piece |
28200 |
| 成語 |
せいご |
(n) set phrase; idiomatic expression |
28487 |
| 難治 |
なんじ |
(n) obstinate |
29519 |
| 難治 |
なんち |
(n) obstinate |
29519 |
| 法難 |
ほうなん |
(n) religious persecution |
29519 |
| 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 |
| 難儀 |
なんぎ |
(adj-na,n) affliction; hardship; difficulty |
30308 |
| 語らう |
かたらう |
(v5u) to talk; to tell; to recite; to pledge; to conspire with |
30433 |
| 有り難い |
ありがたい |
(adj) grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude |
30433 |
| 口語体 |
こうごたい |
(n) colloquial style |
30969 |
| 有難い |
ありがたい |
(adj) grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude |
31368 |
| 危難 |
きなん |
(n) peril; danger; hazard; distress |
31527 |
| 難産 |
なんざん |
(n) difficult delivery (birth) |
31784 |
| 難渋 |
なんじゅう |
(adj-na,n) retardation |
32216 |
| 有難う |
ありがとう |
(io) (conj,exp,int) Thank you |
32216 |
| 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 |
| 難癖 |
なんくせ |
(n) fault |
33462 |
| 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 |
| 女難 |
じょなん |
(n) trouble with women |
34381 |
| 難局 |
なんきょく |
(n) difficult situation |
34381 |
| 論難 |
ろんなん |
(n) criticism; censure |
34381 |
| 国難 |
こくなん |
(n) national crisis or disaster |
35139 |
| 私語 |
しご |
(n) whispering; secret talk |
35139 |