List: JLPT Level N5 words
JLPT N5 words: Basic Level
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- store, shop, establishment, restaurant
頭あたまatamapopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) abbreviation colloquial mahjong
- head
- hair (on one's head)
- mind, brains, intellect
- leader, chief, boss, captain
- top, tip
- beginning, start
- head, person
- down payment, deposit
- top structural component of a kanji
- pair
popular JLPT N5 numeric noun noun (generic)
- eight
- eight years of age
- two o'clock (old time system)
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 numeric noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) adverb archaic
- 10,000, ten thousand
- myriad
- everything, all
- various
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- day after tomorrow
- wrong (e.g. direction)
popular JLPT N5 numeric noun noun (generic)
- six
- six years of age
- six o'clock (old time system)
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- warm, mild, (pleasantly) hot
- considerate, kind, genial
- warm (of a colour), mellow
- having enough money
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hear
- to listen (e.g. to music)
- to ask, to enquire, to query
- to hear about, to hear of, to learn of
- to follow (advice, order, etc.), to obey, to listen to, to comply with
- to hear (e.g. a plea), to grant (a request), to accept (e.g. an argument), to give consideration to
- to smell (esp. incense), to sample (a fragrance)
- to taste (alcohol), to try
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic) usually written using kana alone
- pretty, lovely, beautiful, fair
- clean, clear, pure, tidy, neat
- completely, entirely
目めmepopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) suffix usually written using kana alone go (game)
- eye, eyeball
- eyesight, sight, vision
- look, stare, gaze, glance
- notice, attention, observation, eyes (of the world, public, etc.)
- an experience
- viewpoint
- discrimination, discernment, judgement, eye (e.g. for quality)
- (an) appearance
- chance (of success), possibility (of a good result)
- spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.), opening, stitch, texture, weave
- grain (of wood, paper)
- eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)
- intersection (on a go board), square (on a chessboard)
- dot (on a dice), pip, rolled number
- graduation, division (of a scale)
- tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)
- ordinal number suffix
- somewhat, -ish
- point (e.g. of change)
- eye (empty space inside a group of stones)