| Level 4 vocabulary |
| 漢字 | (n) Chinese characters/ kanji/ (P) |  |
| 字引 | (n) dictionary/ (P) |  |
| Level 3 vocabulary |
| 字 | (n) character/ hand-writing/ (P) |  |
| Level 2 vocabulary |
| 活字 | (n) printing type/ (P) |  |
| 習字 | (n) penmanship/ (P) |  |
| 数字 | (n) numeral/ figure/ (P) |  |
| ローマ字 | (n) transliteration of Japanese in "Roman" or Latin letters/ romanization/ romaji/ (P) |  |
| Level 1 vocabulary |
| 赤字 | (n) deficit/ go in the red/ (P) |  |
| 当て字 | (n) phonetic-equivalent character/ substitute character/ (P) |  |
| 英字 | (n) English letter (character) |  |
| 黒字 | (n) balance (figure) in the black/ (P) |  |
| 字体 | (n) type/ font/ lettering/ (P) |  |
| 十字路 | (n) crossroads/ (P) |  |