🔎 Japanese Word Usage

This page searches a fixed reference corpus of diverse Japanese web pages — news, culture, cooking, travel, science, and more — to show you how a word or phrase is actually used in real writing, not just what a dictionary says.

How to search:

• Single word — type a kanji word (勉強), hiragana (べんきょう), or romaji (benkyou) and press Look up.
• English — type an English word (e.g. mountain) and the page looks up the most common Japanese equivalent automatically.
• Set phrase — enter a multi-word expression as one unit (気がする, 大丈夫) to search it as a whole.
• Multiple words — separate words with a space (アメリカ 大学) to look up each independently on the same page.

What each section shows:

• Dictionary info — reading, romaji, part of speech, English definition, JLPT level, kanji meanings, and verb conjugations. Katakana loanwords show their source language. Keigo verbs are labelled 尊敬語 (respect) or 謙譲語 (humble). Use 🔊 to hear the word, or click Look up on Jisho.org for deeper dictionary detail.
• Hiragana disambiguation — when you enter hiragana (e.g. き), the page shows all kanji words that share that reading with their definitions and corpus frequency, so you can pick the intended word.
• Examples — up to 10 real sentences from the corpus with the target word highlighted. Click any source link to open the original page at the exact passage. Use 🔊 to hear the sentence or 📋 to copy it. If fewer than 10 are found, a Search web for more examples button appears to fetch additional sentences live.
• Common expressions — set phrases and collocations containing the word that appear frequently across many corpus pages and are listed in the dictionary (e.g. 気になる, 気がする for 気). Click any expression to look it up.
• Related words — words statistically most likely to appear near your word in the corpus, grouped by part of speech with romaji readings. Click any word to look it up.
• Where it appears — which topic categories and tone (positive/neutral/negative) the corpus pages containing this word tend to have.
• Top pages — corpus pages where the word appears most often, linked directly.

Other tips: Press / anywhere on the page to jump to the search box. Use Copy for Anki to copy the word, reading, and definition as tab-separated text ready for Anki import. Every result has a shareable URL — use Get Link to copy it. View your recent lookups via Recent Usages in the top-right corner.