The Japanese dictionary for learners.

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

search
Examples:

戒め いましめ

  1. admonition; caution; lesson; warning
  2. ban; commandment; precept; prohibition
  3. punishment
  4. caution; guard

戒める いましめる

  1. to caution against; to warn against
  2. to admonish; to rebuke; to scold
  3. to ban; to forbid; to prohibit
  4. to be cautious
  5. to detest; to loathe
  6. to punish

前車の覆るは後車の戒め ぜんしゃのくつがえるはこうしゃのいましめ

  1. learn from others' mistakes; learn wisdom from the follies of others; the toppling over of the cart in front serves as a warning for the cart behind
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.