Study Lists

Vocabulary lists by learning tier, and by topic (semantic tag). Each list shows the headword with furigana, its reading and a short gloss, linked to the full entry.

Basic vocabularyFoundational words for beginners β€” the vocabulary every learner meets first. 800 entries. Core vocabularyWords for essential everyday adult communication β€” the layer after the basic tier. 1,979 entries.

By topic (89 tags)

abstract1,026 action2,913 animal-bird55 animal-fish36 animal-general131 animal-insect57 animal-mammal81 appearance278 art367 body-internal120 body-part384 brand-name11 building772 business1,121 change320 clothing381 cognition823 color115 communication1,543 consumption96 cooking223 creation51 culture1,090 daily-life1,137 descriptive2,138 direction155 economics234 education929 electronics271 emotion1,382 entertainment228 evaluation550 event-name15 existence71 expression323 family340 finance302 food1,616 furniture105 geography740 grammatical377 greeting85 health1,090 history309 idiom185 language448 law507 leisure645 media269 military207 money336 movement503 music205 nature844 number254 occupation442 onomatopoeia168 organization-name30 person953 person-name47 personality468 place103 place-name145 plant-flower37 plant-general176 plant-tree36 politics508 proper-noun263 proverb41 quantity452 religion308 science677 sense105 shopping260 size101 society1,144 sports567 technology657 time-day-of-week19 time-general851 time-month25 time-period157 time-season105 tool596 transportation689 travel266 weather356 work988 work-name22