| Level 4 vocabulary |
| 英語 | (n) the English language/ (P) |  |
| 語 | (n,n-suf) language/ word/ (P) |  |
| Level 2 vocabulary |
| 語る | (v5r) to talk/ to tell/ to recite/ (P) |  |
| 敬語 | (n) honorific/ term of respect/ (P) |  |
| 言語 | (n) language/ (P) |  |
| 語学 | (n) language study/ (P) |  |
| 国語 | (n) national language/ (P) |  |
| 熟語 | (n) idiom/ idiomatic phrase/ kanji compound/ (P) |  |
| 主語 | (n) (gram) subject/ (P) |  |
| 述語 | (n) predicate |  |
| 単語 | (n) word/ vocabulary/ (usually) single-character word/ (P) |  |
| 標語 | (n) motto/ slogan/ catchword/ (P) |  |
| 物語る | (v5r) to tell/ to indicate/ (P) |  |
| 用語 | (n) term/ terminology/ (P) |  |
| Level 1 vocabulary |
| 漢語 | (n) Chinese word/ Sino-Japanese word/ (P) |  |
| 語彙 | (n) vocabulary/ glossary/ (P) |  |
| 語句 | (n) words/ phrases/ (P) |  |
| 語源 | (n) word root/ word derivation/ etymology/ (P) |  |
| 文語 | (n) written language/ literary language/ (P) |  |
| 略語 | (n) abbreviation/ acronym/ (P) |  |