Yookoso! JLPT5 Kanji

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

廊下 [ろうか]
(n) corridor [K] [D] [Jisho]
靴下 [くつした]
(n) socks [K] [D] [Jisho]
下手 [へた]
(adj-na,n) unskillful; poor; awkward [K] [D] [Jisho]
地下鉄 [ちかてつ]
(n) underground train; subway [K] [D] [Jisho]
下 [した]
(n) under; below; beneath [K] [D] [Jisho]
下さい [ください]
please (kana only); (with te-form verb) please do for me [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

以下 [いか]
(n) (1) below; under; the following; the rest; (2) and downward; less than; up to; not exceeding [K] [D] [Jisho]
下宿 [げしゅく]
(n,vs) boarding; lodging; boarding house [K] [D] [Jisho]
下着 [したぎ]
(n) underwear [K] [D] [Jisho]
下げる [さげる]
(v1) to hang; to lower; to move back; to wear; to dismiss; to grant [K] [D] [Jisho]
下さる [くださる]
(v5aru) (hon) to give; to confer [K] [D] [Jisho]
下りる [おりる]
(v1) to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to descend (e.g. a mountain) [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

地下 [ちか]
(n) basement; underground [K] [D] [Jisho]
下り [くだり]
(n,n-suf) down-train (going away from Tokyo) [K] [D] [Jisho]
下ろす [おろす]
(v5s) to take down; to launch; to drop; to lower; to let (a person) off; to unload; to discharge [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

下降 [かこう]
(n) downward; descent; fall; drop; subsidence [K] [D] [Jisho]
下車 [げしゃ]
(n,vs) alighting; getting off [K] [D] [Jisho]
下旬 [げじゅん]
(n-adv,n-t) month (last third of) [K] [D] [Jisho]
下書き [したがき]
(n) rough copy; draft [K] [D] [Jisho]
ぶら下げる [ぶらさげる]
(v1) to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing [K] [D] [Jisho]
下水 [げすい]
(n) drainage; sewage; ditch; gutter; sewerage [K] [D] [Jisho]
見下ろす [みおろす]
(v5s) to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on something [K] [D] [Jisho]
上下 [じょうげ]
(n,vs) high and low; up and down; unloading and loading; praising and blaming [K] [D] [Jisho]
下駄 [げた]
(n) geta (Japanese footwear); wooden clogs [K] [D] [Jisho]
地下水 [ちかすい]
(n) underground water [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

昼下がり [ひるさがり]
(n) early afternoon [K] [D] [Jisho]
年下 [としした]
(n) younger; junior [K] [D] [Jisho]
下見 [したみ]
(n) preview; preliminary inspection; siding (on a house) [K] [D] [Jisho]
下限 [かげん]
(n) lower limit [K] [D] [Jisho]
下戸 [げこ]
(n) non-drinker; temperate man [K] [D] [Jisho]
城下町 [じょうかまち]
(n) castle town; town around castle [K] [D] [Jisho]
引き下げ [ひきさげ]
(n) reduction; cut [K] [D] [Jisho]
下山 [げざん]
(n,vs) descending (mountain) [K] [D] [Jisho]
天下り [あまくだり]
(n) retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation [K] [D] [Jisho]
下肢 [かし]
(n) the legs; lower extremities [K] [D] [Jisho]
下手 [したて]
(n) humble position; inferior [K] [D] [Jisho]
下手投げ [したてなげ]
(baseball) an underhand throw; (sumo) an underarm throw [K] [D] [Jisho]
床下 [ゆかした]
(n) under the floor [K] [D] [Jisho]
上り下り [のぼりくだり]
(n) rising and falling; going up and down [K] [D] [Jisho]
氷点下 [ひょうてんか]
(n) below freezing [K] [D] [Jisho]
飛び下りる [とびおりる]
(v1) to jump down; to jump off [K] [D] [Jisho]
妃殿下 [ひでんか]
(n) princess; Her Royal Highness [K] [D] [Jisho]
ぶら下がる [ぶらさがる]
(v5r) to hang from; to dangle; to swing [K] [D] [Jisho]
下唇 [したくちびる]
(n) lower lip [K] [D] [Jisho]
直下 [ちょっか]
(n,vs) directly under; price cut; fall perpendicularly [K] [D] [Jisho]
下水道 [げすいどう]
(n) drain; sewer; drainage system [K] [D] [Jisho]
取り下げ [とりさげ]
(n) withdrawal [K] [D] [Jisho]
下請け [したうけ]
(n) subcontract [K] [D] [Jisho]
門下 [もんか]
(n) one's pupil or student or follower [K] [D] [Jisho]
門下生 [もんかせい]
(n) pupil; disciple; follower [K] [D] [Jisho]

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.


English: below down descend give low inferior	On-Yomi: カゲ	Kun-Yomi: したしももとさ.げるさ.がるくだ.るくだ.りくだ.す -くだ.すくだ.さるお.ろすお.りるさかしと