List: JLPT Level N5 words
JLPT N5 words: Basic Level
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- chicken meat
- fowl, poultry, bird meat
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- weak, frail, delicate, tender, unskilled, weak (wine)
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- small, little, tiny
- slight, below average (in degree, amount, etc.), minor, small
- low (e.g. sound), soft (e.g. voice)
- unimportant, petty, insignificant, trifling, trivial
- young, juvenile
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- spicy, hot
- salty
- harsh (criticism), severe (punishment), strict
- painful, bitter, difficult, tough
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to sit, to squat
- to assume (a position)
- to hold steady, to hold still
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- heavy, weighty
- heavy (feeling), depressed, gloomy, blue, uneasy
- slow, sluggish, lumbering, ponderous, clumsy
- important (position, responsibility, etc.), serious, grave
- serious (punishment, illness, etc.), severe, critical
- solid, established, dignified, sensible
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to eat
- to live on (e.g. a salary), to live off, to subsist on
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- blue, azure
- green
- pale (facial color), gray, grey
- unripe, inexperienced
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- short
- brief
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to enter, to come in, to go in, to get in, to arrive
- to join (a club, company, etc.), to enter (a university, the army, etc.), to enroll (in), to go into (e.g. politics), to get into
- to be contained (in), to be included (in), to be inside (e.g. a box), to come under (a heading), to belong (in a category)
- to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.), to be (able to be) held, to be (able to be) accommodated
- to be introduced, to be brought in, to be installed
- to be received, to be obtained
- to be scored (of points), to be won (of votes)
- to turn on, to start functioning, to start working
- to enter (a month, season, etc.), to reach (e.g. a climax), to get to (e.g. the main topic), to enter into (e.g. negotiations), to start (doing), to begin
- to form (of a crack, fissure, etc.), to develop
- to be put in (of effort, spirit, feeling, etc.), to be applied (e.g. of strength)
- to be ready (of tea, coffee, etc.), to be made
- to enter the body (of alcohol), to become drunk