The Japanese dictionary for learners.

Instant search in romaji, kana, kanji, #k [kanji], or components #c [radicals].

search
Examples:

御免 ごめん N2

  1. I'm sorry; excuse me; my apologies; pardon me
  2. may I come in?
  3. leave; license; permission
  4. discharge; dismissal
  5. being fed up with; not wanting; objecting to; wishing to avoid

御免なさい ごめんなさい N3

  1. I'm sorry; excuse me; my apologies; pardon me

御免を蒙る ごめんをこうむる

  1. to receive permission
  2. to leave (with someone's permission); to retire
  3. to beg off doing; to refuse

御免被りたい ごめんこうむりたい

  1. I'll stay out of this one; I'm good, thanks

御免被る ごめんこうむる

  1. to receive permission
  2. to leave (with someone's permission); to retire
  3. to beg off doing; to refuse

木戸御免 きどごめん

  1. have a pass to; have access to

天下御免 てんかごめん

  1. chartered; legitimate; licensed; officially allowed

お役御免 おやくごめん

  1. being relieved from one's post; being relieved of a duty; dismissal (from one's post); firing
  2. becoming useless; discarding; throwing away

諸役御免 しょやくごめん

  1. being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government

帯刀御免 たいとうごめん

  1. a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period)
menu_book

Search for a word, a kanji or a sentence above.

Keyboard shortcut: press / to search.

What you can look up

A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.