List: martial arts
Terms used in Japanese martial arts like Judo, Kendo, Aikido, Ninjutsu among others.
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb martial arts
- guidance, leadership, instruction, direction, coaching
- shido (minor penalty in judo)
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) martial arts
- valid, effective
- yuko (judo)
popular noun noun (generic) martial arts noun (suffix)
- one long cylindrical thing, one film, TV show, etc., one goal, home run, etc., one telephone call
- one version
- one book, a certain book
- ippon, one point, a blow
- geisha
- single-minded focus on ...
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb martial arts
- warning, caution, admonition
- keikoku (penalty in judo)
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) martial arts
- eastern direction
- the Orient
- eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling)
popular noun noun (generic) martial arts
- (fighting) spirit, motivation, effort
- shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.), cheer, yell
- kiai, short shout when performing an attacking move
popular noun noun (generic) martial arts sumo
- thrust, stab, lunge, pass (in fencing)
- tsuki, thrust to the throat (in kendo)
- tsuki, thrust to the chest
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb computing martial arts colloquial
- to drop, to lose, to let fall, to shed (light), to cast (one's gaze), to pour in (liquid), to leave behind
- to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.), to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair), to lose, to spend money at a certain place, to omit, to leave out, to secretly let escape
- to lose (a match), to reject (an applicant), to fail (a course), to defeat (in an election)
- to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice), to lessen (e.g. production or body weight), to worsen (quality), to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity), to speak badly of, to make light of, to fall into straitened circumstances
- to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin), to make one's own, to have one's bid accepted, to force surrender, to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle), to forcefully convince, to press for a confession, to deal with
- to download, to copy from a computer to another medium
- to make someone swoon (judo)
- to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
- to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)
- to win over, to seduce, to conquer (unwillingness)
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation Buddhism martial arts
- western direction
- Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise)
- western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
popular sports noun noun (generic) martial arts rare term
- underhand grip (e.g. in gymnastics, etc.)
- cross-handed grip (e.g. in golf, etc.), using ones hands backwards from their conventional positioning
- reverse grip (e.g. of a sword)
- turning the tables (on an opponent)
- reverse arm-lock (in judo), joint lock
- foul trick