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Articles about Japanese vocabulary
On Suki Desu, Japanese vocabulary brings together word lists, kanji, kana and how the words are actually used.
Simple Japanese phrases for peace and hope.
A simple visual tool for building vocabulary across languages.
From Muchimuchi to Mankitsu: 10 Japanese words that turn up the heat
Six Japanese words that let you say “obvious” naturally in any situation.
The Japanese words for “beginning” are close, but grammar and setting change the natural choice.
The gojūon under pressure — from Novice to Impossible mode.
A compact list of useful Korean adjectives for study and quick reference.
Some words only make sense when you see the writing and the tone together.
Korean insults make more sense when you see meaning and context together.
A mixed list of customs, objects, slang, and names, each gloss kept short.
The short forms you hear on campus, at a convenience store, and in a chat, and how to split one you have not memorized.
A practical reference guide to chess terms in Japanese, covering board basics, Katakana piece names, tactical vocabulary, and...
A cultural and linguistic guide to tattoos in Japan, exploring historical stigma, onsen policies, and essential advice for kanji...
Family name, then the given name: which characters are allowed, how the reading is fixed, and what the 14-day birth filing asks of...
Start with the camera. The reading shows up once the characters are in a dictionary.
先生 reads sensei. Students, patients, and readers use it for the person ahead of them in a skill, from the classroom to the dojo.
The pronunciation kami covers three common words: 神 (god), 紙 (paper), and 髪 (hair).
From 自然 (shizen) to 星空 (hoshizora): the essential Japanese words for landscape, plants, animals and sky at a glance.
A guide to Japanese fish vocabulary, from the everyday word for fish to species names, fins, growth stages and other aquatic...
From love and freedom to peace: the ideograms most used in tattoos and what changes between Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
山 is one of the first kanji taught in Japanese elementary school, and it appears in mountain names under different readings, from...
Damare orders silence, urusai complains about noise, shizuka ni asks for quiet.
From ikigai to ukiyo: what each word actually says and how Japanese people use it day to day.
Kanji, romaji, and short English meanings for institutions, parties, elections, and political debate in Japanese.
