List: abbreviation
An abbreviation is a shorter way to write a word or phrase.
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic) noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- supermarket
- subtitles, telop
- superheterodyne
- super
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- stands, bleachers
- stand (e.g. newspaper stand), counter (e.g. lunch counter)
- stand (e.g. inkstand)
- desk lamp, floor lamp, standard lamp
- station (e.g. gas station)
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- strike (i.e. industrial action)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) abbreviation noun or participle taking the aux. verb する
- slide (for projection), transparency
- (microscope) slide
- to slide, to slip
- to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule), to move
- to change (with a sliding scale), to index (to), to peg
popular JLPT N2 abbreviation noun noun (generic) prefix な adjective adjective (generic)
- centimeter, centimetre
- centi-, 10^-2
- sentimental
popular JLPT N4 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の abbreviation computing noun noun (generic)
- soft
- software
- soft hat, felt hat
- soft serve ice cream
- softball
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) abbreviation noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- type, kind, sort, style
- type (of person), (ideal) type, one's type
- typewriter
- typing (on a typewriter)
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- diamond
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb boxing computing baseball sports abbreviation
- fall, decrease, drop, going down
- knocking down, flooring, being knocked down, being floored
- being out of action (due to illness, exhaustion, etc.), being down (e.g. with a cold), being knocked out (from alcohol), being out of it, collapsing
- going down (of a computer system, server, etc.), crashing
- (number of) outs
- being down (in points, games, etc.), being behind, trailing
- down (in American football)
- down (feathers)
- down jacket
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) abbreviation sports rare term
- double
- double bed, hotel room with a double bed
- double-breasted
- double-cuffed
- double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters)
- doubles (e.g. in tennis)
- biracial person (esp. half-Japanese), person of mixed parentage