| 帯 | おび・obi (kimono sash)、band; belt; strip |
| 時間帯 | じかんたい・period of time; time slot、time zone |
| 教材 | きょうざい・teaching materials |
| 細い | ほそい・thin; slender; fine |
| 細かい | こまかい・small |
| 戸 | と・door (esp. Japanese-style) |
| 戸棚 | とだな・cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet |
| 雨戸 | あまど・sliding storm shutter |
| 湖 | みずうみ・lake |
| 風船 | ふうせん・balloon (toy or decoration) |
| 船 | ふね・ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; seaplane |
| 船長 | せんちょう・ship's captain; skipper |
| 船便 | ふなびん・surface mail (ship); sea mail |
| 角度 | かくど・angle |
| 四角い | しかくい・square; rectangular |
| 三角形 | さんかくけい・triangle |
| 角 | かく・angle |
| 夫婦 | ふうふ・married couple; husband and wife; man and wife |
| 夫 | おっと・husband |
| 苦労 | くろう・trouble; hardship; difficulty; labour; labor; toil; pains |
| 苦い | にがい・bitter |
| 苦しい | くるしい・painful; difficult; tough; hard |
| 苦手 | にがて・poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at) |
| お礼 | おれい・thanks; gratitude |
| 伺う | うかがう・to call on someone; to call at a place; to pay a visit; to wait on someone |
| 強調 | きょうちょう・emphasis; stress; highlighting; underlining; underscoring |
| 調査 | ちょうさ・investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey |
| 移動 | いどう・movement; transfer; migration; removal; travel |
| 移る | うつる・to move (house); to transfer (department) |
| 困難 | こんなん・ difficulty; hardship; trouble; distress |
| 難問 | なんもん・perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem |
| 難しい | むずかしい・difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.) |
| 簡単 | かんたん・simple; easy; uncomplicated |
| 単語 | たんご・word; vocabulary |
| 単位 | たんい・unit; denomination |
| 感動 | かんどう・being deeply moved emotionally; excitement; passion; inspiration; deep emotion; strong impression |
| 感想 | かんそう・impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions |
| 予想 | よそう・expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture |
| 最も | もっとも・most; extremely |
| 快適 | かいてき・pleasant; agreeable; comfortable |
| 適当 | てきとう・suitable; proper; appropriate; adequate; fit; fair |
| 選挙 | せんきょ・election |
| 選手 | せんしゅ・player (of a sport); athlete; team member |
| 選ぶ | えらぶ・to choose; to select |
| 直線 | ちょくせん・straight line |
| 直接 | ちょくせつ・direct; immediate; personal; firsthand |
| 復習 | ふくしゅう・review (of learned material); revision |
| 往復 | おうふく・making a round trip; going and returning; coming and going |
| 回復 | かいふく・restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; return; replevin; improvement |
| 辞書 | じしょ・dictionary; lexicon |
| 宿題 | しゅくだい・homework; assignment |
| 宿 | やど・lodging; inn; hotel |
| 下宿 | げしゅく・boarding; lodging; board and lodging; room and board |
| 結局 | けっきょく・after all; in the end; ultimately; eventually |
| 結ぶ | むすぶ・to tie; to bind; to link |
| 新婚旅行 | しんこんりょこう・honeymoon |
| 婚約 | こんやく・engagement; betrothal |
| 祝う | いわう・to celebrate; to congratulate; to observe (a festival) |
| お祝い | おいわい・congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival |
| 曲 | きょく・composition; piece of music; song; track (on a record) |
| 曲がる | まがる・to bend; to curve; to warp; to wind; to twist |
| 曲線 | きょくせん・curve |
| 曲げる | まげる・to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl |
| 奥さん | おくさん・wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam |
| 奥 | おく・inner part; interior; back (of a drawer, one's throat, etc.); depths (e.g. of a forest); recesses (e.g. of a cave); heart; end (of a road, garden, etc.) |
| 寝坊 | ねぼう・sleeping in late; oversleeping |
| 昼寝 | ひるね・(afternoon) nap; sleeping during the day; siesta |
| 頭痛 | ずつう・headache |
| 腹痛 | ふくつう・stomach ache; abdominal pain |
| 熱心 | ねっしん・zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager |
| 虫歯 | むしば・cavity; tooth decay; decayed tooth; dental caries |
| 政治 | せいじ・politics; government |
| 治療 | ちりょう・(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy |
| 汚い | きたない・dirty; filthy; foul; unclean |
| 歯並び | はならび・row of teeth; set of teeth; dentition |
| 独身 | どくしん・single; unmarried |
| 身分 | みぶん・(social) standing; status; position; rank |
| 刺身 | さしみ・sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans) |
| 日本酒 | にほんしゅ・sake (rice wine); saké |
| お酒 | おさけ・alcohol; sake |
| 酒屋 | さかや・liquor store; wine shop; bottle shop |
| 料理酒 | りょうりしゅ・cooking sake |
| 呼吸 | こきゅう・breathing; respiration |
| 吸う | すう・to smoke; to breathe in; to inhale |
| 食欲 | しょくよく・appetite (for food) |
| 意欲 | いよく・will; desire; eagerness; interest; drive; motivation; urge; ambition |
| 息子 | むすこ・son |
| 息切れ | いきぎれ・shortness of breath; panting; puffing |
| 厚い | あつい・thick; deep; heavy |
| 初級 | しょきゅう・elementary level; beginner level |
| 紅葉 | こうよう・leaves turning red (in autumn); red leaves; autumn colours; fall colors |
| 葉 | は・leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle |
| 言葉 | ことば・language; dialect |
| 予報 | よほう・forecast; prediction |
| 報告 | ほうこく・report; information |
| 晴れ | はれ・clear weather; fine weather |
| 暖房 | だんぼう・(indoor) heating |
| 暖かい | あたたかい・warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot |
| 震度 | しんど・seismic intensity |
| 電波 | でんぱ・radio wave; reception; signal |
| 波 | なみ・wave |
| 津波 | つなみ・tsunami; tidal wave |
| 請求書 | せいきゅうしょ・bill; account; invoice |
| 要求 | ようきゅう・demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire |
| 求人 | きゅうじん・recruiting; job offer; job vacancy |
| 求める | もとめる・to want; to wish for |
| 職場 | しょくば・one's post; place of work; workplace |
| 転職 | てんしょく・change of job; change of occupation; career change |
| 職業 | しょくぎょう・occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling; business |
| 募集 | ぼしゅう・recruitment; invitation; selection; advertisement; taking applications |
| 職員 | しょくいん・staff member; employee; worker; personnel |
| 美容院 | びよういん・beauty parlour; beauty parlor; beauty salon; hairdressing salon |
| 内容 | ないよう・contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import |
| 技術者 | ぎじゅつしゃ・engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson |
| 一般 | いっぱん・general; universal |
| 事務 | じむ・office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs |
| 事務所 | じむしょ・office |
| 公務員 | こうむいん・public employee; government employee; public-sector worker; public servant; civil servant |
| 税務署 | ぜいむしょ・tax office |
| 第一課 | だいいっか・lesson one; first lesson |
| 課長 | かちょう・section manager; section chief |
| 地球 | ちきゅう・Earth; the globe |
| 電球 | でんきゅう・light bulb |
| 野球 | やきゅう・baseball |
| 決して | けっして・(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all |
| 決定 | けってい・decision; determination |
| 決勝 | けっしょう・decision of a contest; finals (in sports) |
| 反対 | はんたい・opposition; resistance; antagonism; hostility; objection; dissent |
| 対 | versus; against; vs.; v. |
| 流れる | ながれる・to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink) |
| 勝負 | しょうぶ・victory or defeat |
| 負ける | まける・ to lose; to be defeated |
| 投手 | とうしゅ・pitcher |
| 投げる | なげる・to throw; to hurl; to fling; to toss; to cast |
| 戦後 | せんご・postwar period; period after Second World War |
| 戦争 | せんそう・war |
| 経営 | けいえい・management; administration; operation; running (a business); conducting |
| 経済 | けいざい・economy; economics |
| 済む | すむ・to finish; to end; to be completed |
| 完成 | かんせい・completion; perfection; accomplishment |
| 貿易 | ぼうえき・(foreign) trade; (international) commerce; importing and exporting |
| 易しい | やさしい・easy; plain; simple |
| 輸出 | ゆしゅつ・export; exportation |
| 輸送 | ゆそう・transport; transportation; transit; conveyance |
| 輸入 | ゆにゅう・import; importation; introduction |
| 相手 | あいて・companion; partner; company |
| 首相 | しゅしょう・prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier |
| 化学 | かがく・chemistry |
| 化 | か・change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification |
| 原料 | げんりょう・raw materials; ingredient |
| 国際 | こくさい・international |
| 交際 | こうさい・company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance |
| 議員 | ぎいん・member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress |
| 変化 | へんか・change; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; transformation; transfiguration; metamorphosis |
| 政治家 | せいじか・ politician; statesman |
| 政府 | せいふ・government; administration; ministry |
| 都道府県 | とどうふけん・prefectures (of Japan); largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures |
| 改正 | かいせい・ revision; amendment; alteration |
| あらためる | あらためる・to change; to alter; to revise; to replace、to examine; to check; to inspect |
| 否定 | ひてい・denial; negation; repudiation; disavowal |
| 否定的 | ひていてき・negative; contradictory |
| 実際に | じっさいに・actually; really; truly; indeed |
| 実験 | じっけん・experiment; experimentation |
| 欠点 | けってん・fault; defect; flaw; weak point; weakness; shortcoming; drawback |
| 欠席 | けっせき・absence; non-attendance |
| 欠ける | かける・to chip; to be chipped; to break (off); to be damaged |
| 専門家 | せんもんか・specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit |
| 死亡 | しぼう・death; dying; mortality |
| 亡くなる | なくなる・to die; to pass away |
| 多忙 | たぼう・being very busy; busyness |
| 忘年会 | ぼうねんかい・year-end party; "forget-the-year" party; bōnenkai |
| 忘れる | わすれる・to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article) |
| 文化祭 | ぶんかさい・school festival; cultural festival; annual open day school event showcasing student talent |
| 労働者 | ろうどうしゃ・worker |
| 加える | くわえる・to add; to add up; to sum up; to append; to annex |
| 情報 | じょうほう・information; news; report; intelligence |
| 表情 | ひょうじょう・facial expression; countenance |
| 事情 | じじょう・circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs |
| 感情 | かんじょう・emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment |
