Glossary 用語集
Every word, name, title and phrase we teach: 8,677 entries, each with its reading, its meaning and a recording, plus 2,541 kanji and the 208 kana. All free to read; 1,160 of them free to play too, 195 of those in the sections below that are otherwise KanaMember's (the free chapters' words). A word in more than one section is one entry, so the sections below add up to more.
Free to play
Words, names and titles from our free lists and the Japan quizzes.
- Kana wordsかなのことばFirst words to read in hiragana and katakana: short, common, and all written in kana.犬猫海山空80 entries
- Loanwords & wasei-eigo外来語・和製英語Words Japanese borrowed, from English and far beyond, and the English-looking words Japan made up itself.アパートカップカレーギタークラス309 entries
- Food & menus食べ物Dishes, sushi, sweets and drinks, and the words that turn up on a menu.寿司刺身天ぷらうどんラーメン128 entries
- Signs看板What the signs say at stations, in shops and restaurants, on doors and in toilets.駅出口入口改札乗り換え83 entries
- Prefectures都道府県All 47, in kanji, region by region: the names you see on maps, trains and number plates.北海道青森県岩手県宮城県秋田県47 entries
- Yamanote Line山手線The 30 stations of Tokyo's loop line, JY01 東京 to JY30 有楽町.東京神田秋葉原御徒町上野30 entries
- Countries国名Every country's name in Japanese, continent by continent: mostly katakana, a few in kanji.アフガニスタンアンゴラアルバニアアンドラアラブ首長国連邦192 entries
- Culture & honorifics文化・敬称The answers to our Japan trivia and honorifics questions: places, customs, daily life, さん and 様.富士山琵琶湖東京本州四国59 entries
- Anime & manga titlesアニメ・漫画The most popular anime and manga as their titles are written in Japanese, symbols and all.呪術廻戦鬼滅の刃葬送のフリーレンポケットモンスター進撃の巨人52 entries
Everything else, free to read
Every JLPT word from N5 to N1, words by theme, phrases, counters and every kanji. Practising them is KanaMember's: each program's first chapter is free, and new accounts get 14 days of everything.
- Words by themeテーマ別Everyday words by topic: food and drink, home, travel, school and work, nature, the body, time, hobbies, sound words.魚味噌汁野菜果物砂糖406 entries
- Phrases表現Set phrases for greetings, introductions, requests, eating out, shopping and travel.おはよう ございますこんにちはこんばんはさようならまた ね133 entries
- Numbers & counters数・助数詞Counting things, people, days, months, hours and minutes: every N5 counter, with the readings that change.一つ二つ三つ四つ五つ147 entries
- JLPT N5 wordsN5 の単語The first level: everyday words you meet in your first months of Japanese.ああ会う青青い赤668 entries
- JLPT N4 wordsN4 の単語Every word on our JLPT N4 list, grouped by the kana it starts with.踏むすっと盗む大抵とうとう642 entries
- JLPT N3 wordsN3 の単語Every word on our JLPT N3 list, grouped by the kana it starts with.作法様々冷ます覚ます冷める2,091 entries
- JLPT N2 wordsN2 の単語Every word on our JLPT N2 list, grouped by the kana it starts with.相変わらずアイデアあいまい扇ぐ青白い1,694 entries
- JLPT N1 wordsN1 の単語The top level: the vocabulary of newspapers, essays and formal Japanese.現像原則見地現地限定2,655 entries
- Kanji漢字Every kanji we teach, by JLPT level: readings, stroke order and the words that use it.日本語学食2,541 kanji
Kana
All 208 kana are free, each with its own page: stroke order, where it came from, words that use it.
First kanji
The 20 kanji of the N5 program's free chapters. Every kanji we teach has a page too: kanji by JLPT level.
Look it up, then play it
The free sections play in Free play and the Japan quizzes, and every program's first chapter is free. Signed in, what you miss comes back in Smart Review.