List: JLPT Level N5 words
JLPT N5 words: Basic Level
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 familiar language usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- police officer
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- cold (e.g. weather)
- uninteresting (esp. joke), lame, dull, weak, corny
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- day before yesterday
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- evening meal, dinner, supper
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- yellow
- high-pitched (voice), shrill
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb sumo suffix
- to shine
- to be visible
- to be tinged with
- to rise (of water levels), to flow in
- to be felt (i.e. as an emotion), to come over one
- to hold up (an umbrella, etc.), to put up, to raise
- to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance)
- to insert, to put in
- to wear (a sword) in one's belt, to wear at one's side, to carry under one's arm
- to insert one's arm under an opponent's arm
- to pole (a boat)
- to pour, to add (liquid), to serve (drinks)
- to put on (lipstick, etc.), to apply, to colour, to dye
- to light (a fire), to burn
- to shut, to close, to lock, to fasten
- to stop in the midst of, to leave undone
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to cross over, to go across
- to extend, to cover, to range, to span
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- dark, gloomy, murky
- depressed, dispirited, down in the dumps, dark (mood)
- dark (in colour), dull
- ill-boding, dark (e.g. past), suspicious
- unlikely (to succeed), hopeless, unpromising
- unfamiliar (with), ignorant (of)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to take lessons in, to be taught, to learn (from a teacher), to study (under a teacher), to get training in
popular JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb polite language usually written using kana alone intransitive verb auxiliary verb suffix humble language
- to raise, to elevate
- to do up (one's hair)
- to fly (a kite, etc.), to launch (fireworks, etc.), to surface (a submarine, etc.)
- to land (a boat)
- to deep-fry
- to show someone (into a room)
- to give
- to send someone (away)
- to enrol (one's child in school), to enroll
- to increase (price, quality, status, etc.), to develop (talent, skill), to improve
- to make (a loud sound), to raise (one's voice)
- to earn (something desirable)
- to praise
- to give (an example, etc.), to cite
- to summon up (all of one's energy, etc.)
- to arrest
- to nominate
- to summon (for geishas, etc.)
- to offer up (incense, a prayer, etc.) to the gods (or Buddha, etc.)
- to bear (a child)
- to conduct (a ceremony, esp. a wedding)
- (of the tide) to come in
- to vomit
- to do for (the sake of someone else)
- to complete ...
- to humbly do ...