Welcome to Takashi’s Japanese Dictionary (Takashionary)! This website, run by a Japanese native speaker Takashi, introduces intriguing, quirky and useful Japanese expressions (e.g. idioms, slang words) that are usually not covered by textbooks or language classes. If you want to astonish your Japanese friends using advanced Japanese words, or simply love to learn quirky aspects of language, this is the website for you.
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Recent Update
- I’ve started building a glossary (check it out here) and the list is growing daily. Let me know if there is something that you want me to add (e.g. a new word, new section).
- I’ve made a Japanese Synonym Finder, in which you can search for various synonyms of Japanese words (with furigana). Try it out!
- I’ve added a new feature to the Japanese Furigana Generator: now
it shows not only furigana, but also the definitions of words in an input sentence (the definitions are automatically retrieved from the open-sourced Japanese dictionary JMDict)
(See more recent updates on What’s New Page, and the latest blog posts here)
Featured Posts
- 5 Meanings of 気 (ki) and 30 気-related Phrases/Idioms
- “Gakkī Loss”: Meaning of ロス (“Loss”) in Japanese
- 30+ Japanese Words for “Very”: Synonyms of とても (totemo)
- 40 Ways of Saying “Many” in Japanese (Ooi, Ippai, Takusan, and More…)
- 8 Funny and Cute Japanese Cat Idioms
- Success Story of Ichiro Suzuki: What He Means to Japanese Baseball Fans
Latest Posts
- Meaning of ドーハの奇跡 “Miracle in Doha” in Japanese
- Essential Japanese Words About Alcohol/Drinking
- 20 Japanese Twitter Slang Words in 2010s/2020s
- Classic Japanese Puns (Dajare, ダジャレ) You Should Know
- Differences Between 切る (kiru) and 尽くす (tsukusu) as Suffix
- Real and Unknown Meanings of “Hentai” in Japanese
- List of Similar and Confusing Kanji With Different Meanings
- List of 50+ Japanese Words to Describe Personality
- Four Meanings of 坊主 (Bouzu) in Japanese
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