JLPT N5 Vocabulary: 300 Words With Readings and Examples
The kanji is not the hard part at N5. Remembering which reading it takes is.
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| 表 | 裏 |
|---|---|
| 私 | Reading: わたし. Meaning: I, me (pronoun). Example: 私は学生です。 — I am a student. |
| 先生 | Reading: せんせい. Meaning: teacher (noun). Example: 先生に質問しました。 — I asked the teacher a question. |
| 会社 | Reading: かいしゃ. Meaning: company (noun). Example: 会社は九時に始まります。 — Work starts at nine. |
| 店 | Reading: みせ. Meaning: shop (noun). Example: 店は八時に閉まります。 — The shop closes at eight. |
| 家 | Reading: いえ. Meaning: house, home (noun). Example: 家に帰ります。 — I am going home. |
| 水 | Reading: みず. Meaning: water (noun). Example: 水を一杯ください。 — One glass of water, please. |
| 駅 | Reading: えき. Meaning: station (noun). Example: 駅はどこですか。 — Where is the station? |
| 旅行 | Reading: りょこう. Meaning: trip (noun). Example: 来月旅行します。 — I am travelling next month. |
| 今日 | Reading: きょう. Meaning: today (noun). Example: 今日は暑いです。 — It is hot today. |
| 今週 | Reading: こんしゅう. Meaning: this week (noun). Example: 今週は忙しいです。 — I am busy this week. |
| 天気 | Reading: てんき. Meaning: weather (noun). Example: 今日は天気がいいです。 — The weather is good today. |
| 行く | Reading: いく. Meaning: to go (verb). Example: 学校へ行きます。 — I go to school. |
| 読む | Reading: よむ. Meaning: to read (verb). Example: 新聞を読みます。 — I read the newspaper. |
| 起きる | Reading: おきる. Meaning: to get up (verb). Example: 毎朝六時に起きます。 — I get up at six every morning. |
| 遊ぶ | Reading: あそぶ. Meaning: to play (verb). Example: 公園で遊びます。 — I play in the park. |
| 歩く | Reading: あるく. Meaning: to walk (verb). Example: 駅まで歩きます。 — I walk to the station. |
| 会う | Reading: あう. Meaning: to meet (verb). Example: 友達に会います。 — I meet a friend. |
| 開ける | Reading: あける. Meaning: to open (verb). Example: 窓を開けます。 — I open the window. |
| 置く | Reading: おく. Meaning: to put, to place (verb). Example: 机の上に置いてください。 — Please put it on the desk. |
| 終わる | Reading: おわる. Meaning: to end (verb). Example: 仕事は五時に終わります。 — Work ends at five. |
| 大きい | Reading: おおきい. Meaning: big (adjective). Example: 大きいかばんですね。 — That is a big bag. |
| 多い | Reading: おおい. Meaning: many (adjective). Example: 人が多いです。 — There are a lot of people. |
| 楽しい | Reading: たのしい. Meaning: enjoyable (adjective). Example: 旅行は楽しかったです。 — The trip was enjoyable. |
| 元気 | Reading: げんき. Meaning: well, energetic (na-adjective). Example: お元気ですか。 — How are you? |
| 一 | Reading: いち. Meaning: one (numeral). Example: 一つください。 — One, please. |
| 上 | Reading: うえ. Meaning: above, on (noun). Example: 机の上にあります。 — It is on the desk. |
| どこ | Reading: どこ. Meaning: where (pronoun). Example: トイレはどこですか。 — Where is the toilet? |
| とても | Reading: とても. Meaning: very (adverb). Example: とても面白いです。 — It is very interesting. |
| はじめまして | Reading: はじめまして. Meaning: how do you do (phrase). Example: はじめまして、田中です。 — How do you do, I am Tanaka. |
| どういたしまして | Reading: どういたしまして. Meaning: you are welcome (phrase). Example: いいえ、どういたしまして。 — Not at all, you are welcome. |
このデッキについて
At N5 the vocabulary itself is small, and that is what makes people underestimate it. The difficulty is not learning that 人 means person — it is that the same character is ひと on its own, にん when you count people, and じん in a nationality, and a word list that shows you only the kanji and the English leaves you guessing every time you meet it in a sentence. The same problem shows up in pairs like 早い and 速い, which share a reading and split on meaning. This deck covers 300 N5 words. Every card shows the word as it appears in text, and the back gives the kana reading, the English meaning, the part of speech, and an original Japanese sentence with its translation. Cards are tagged by theme — people, home, food, travel, time, position, questions — and by part of speech, so you can drill only verbs, or only the na-adjectives that behave differently. Import it and the deck joins your spaced-repetition schedule, and what stays in rotation is the set whose reading you still have to stop and work out.
よくある質問
- Does importing this deck use AI credits?
- No. Importing uses the saved deck as published; it does not run AI generation or use AI credits. The complete deck can therefore be imported on the free plan.
- What happens if I import the deck twice?
- Nothing is duplicated. Cards you already have are skipped and only newly added cards come across. Including re-imports after deleting, each official deck can be imported three times per account.
- Can I use it on the web app and the phone app?
- Yes. The deck is added to your account, so the same cards and the same progress are available in the web app, the iOS app and the Android app.
- Can I edit the cards after importing?
- Yes. Imported cards are yours: you can edit both sides, delete cards you do not need, change tags, and move cards to another deck.
- What is in the deck?
- 112 nouns, 71 verbs, 43 i-adjectives, 16 na-adjectives, 20 adverbs, 12 pronouns, 13 numerals and 13 set phrases, 300 in total. One word per card, so nothing appears twice.
- Do I need to read kanji already?
- No. Every card gives the kana reading on the back, so you can start from zero kanji and still use the whole deck. Seeing the word in its written form from the first day is deliberate: it is how the word will appear in the exam and in real Japanese, and recognising it there is the skill being built.
- Does it cover grammar and particles?
- Not as rules, but every card carries a full sentence, so the particles are in front of you constantly. Reading 学校へ行きます three hundred times in context does more for particle instinct than a table of は and が ever will. For the grammar points themselves you will still want a textbook.
- Is this enough to pass N5?
- It covers the vocabulary section thoroughly. Import it and open it daily, and the only words that come up are the ones whose reading or meaning you cannot yet produce. Spend the time that frees up on listening, which is where most N5 candidates actually lose marks.
Selection reflects the vocabulary commonly associated with the N5 level; the Japan Foundation and JEES do not publish an official word list and have not endorsed this deck. Every entry, example and translation is written by Memly. Scope reviewed 2026-08-17.