ほん
Meanings
Noun
1. Japan
Kanji used
sun
book
Pitch accent
Top 900
Used in vocabulary (152 in total)
Japanese person; Japanese people
Japanese (language)
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
Japan's best; number one in Japan
military of the Empire of Japan
sake; Japanese rice wine
Japanese government
Japanese representative; Japanese delegate; Japanese delegation
history of Japan; Japanese history
(typically) Japanese
all over Japan; throughout Japan
all-Japan; all-Japan championships; (Japanese) national championships
Nihon Shoki; Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan
western Japan (usu. Chūbu region and westward)
Japanese-style house
Japanese citizen; Japanese citizens
Japanese painting
Japanese food; Japanese meal
Japanese style; Japanesque; Japanism
the Japanese; Japanese side; Japanese delegation; Japanese representatives
made in Japan; Japanese-made
eastern Japan (usu. east of the Chūbu region)
first (of its kind) in Japan
Japanese-style garden; traditional Japanese landscape garden
Japan time; Japan Standard Time; JST
Japanese company (business, firm)
one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan
Japanese-style room
Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan
traditional Japanese dance
Japanese nationality; Japanese citizenship
throughout Japan
Japanization; Japanisation
our country Japan
Bank of Japan; BOJ; BoJ
Japanese writing; Japanese text
Japanese style; Japanese model; Japanese way
Japanese style; Japanese fashion
the Japanese Alps
Japanese record; national record
Japanese car; car of Japanese make
northern Japan (usu. referring to Tōhoku and Hokkaido)
Japan Sea coastal areas; Sea of Japan coastal areas
Japanese dog breed (e.g. Shiba, Akita)
Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)
Japan's three famous sights
Japan hand (someone very knowledgeable about Japan)
Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996)
set of three books of Buddhist stories, written in the late 8th and early 9th century, usually referred to as the Nihon Ryōiki
Japanese paper
Japanese territory
traditional Japanese swimming
Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)
Japanese encephalitis
southern Japan (usu. referring to Kyushu and southwards)
Japanese character (i.e. kana, kanji)
Japanese studies; Japanology
northeast Japan (northeast of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)
new Japanese record
Nippon Decimal Classification; Nippon Decimal System (of book classification)
Japanese Red Army; JRA
Nippon Kempo; Nihon Kempo; Japanese martial art
fuck Japan; drop dead, Japan
southwest Japan (southwest of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line)
Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan; group of Japanese and foreign Catholics who were crucified in 1597 at Nagasaki
Pacific Ocean coastal regions of Honshu
native Japanese horse
Japanese linguistics
Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax; extinct)
Japanese National Railways (1949-1987)
The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry; JCCI
Oriental blood fluke (Schistosoma japonicum)
Japan Current; Kuroshio Current
Japan New Party (Japanese political party, 1992-1994)
Japanese Industrial Standards; JIS
Japanologist; Japan scholar
three greatest teas of Japan (Uji-cha, Sayama-cha and Shizuoka-cha)
Japanese language specialist; linguist specializing in Japanese
Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
Japanese Sign Language; JSL
Japan disease; perceived inability of Japan to overcome economic stagnation, etc.
Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
Examination for Japanese University Admission (for international students); EJU
Nihon Ryōiki (Heian period collection of Buddhist stories); An Account of Miracles in Japan; Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
Nihon Ryōiki (Heian period collection of Buddhist stories); An Account of Miracles in Japan; Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
Japan Agricultural Standard; JAS
Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax; extinct)
Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica)
Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus)
Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus)
Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)
Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
Japanese crayfish (Cambaroides japonicus)
Japanese copperhead (Gloydius blomhoffii); mamushi pit-viper
Japanese pond turtle (Mauremys japonica)
Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
Japanese toad (Bufo japonicus); Japanese common toad
Japanese crayfish (Cambaroides japonicus)
dong dang gui (aromatic herb similar to dong quai, Angelica acutiloba)
Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi)
Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
Dsinezumi shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi); Japanese white-toothed shrew
Schlegel's Japanese gecko (Gekko japonicus); Japanese gecko
Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica)
Japanese badger (Meles meles anakuma)
Japanism; Japanese nationalistic ideological movement
Examples (200 in total)
Is this your first time in Japan?
This is Japan.
Here is Japan.