Japanese word lists

JLPT vocabulary lists

Every word on the JLPT vocabulary lists, N5 to N1, with readings, meanings and example sentences.

Jinuma Basics

Hand-picked everyday sets: food, animals, weather, family, the body, colours and the things in a house.

Japanese words by topic

One list per subject JMdict files words under: baseball, Buddhism, computing, medicine and a hundred more.

Japanese words by usage

One list per register, dialect or kind: onomatopoeia, yojijukugo, honorific language, Kansai dialect and counters.

Core vocabulary

The most useful words first, in cumulative bands: the 500, 1000, 2000 and 5000 that cover the most of ordinary Japanese.

Frequency lists

The most common words of each corpus, in order: spoken Japanese, written Japanese, encyclopedia text and example sentences.

Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists