JLPT N5 flashcards
15 decks · 1,172 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: The 100 kanji and the full ~700-word vocabulary commonly listed for N5 (no official list since 2010; checked against the Tanos N5 list, CC BY), with pitch accent from the Kanjium data. Updated 2026-10-10.
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What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 11 decks · 862 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Part 1
Fifty kanji commonly listed for N5 — numbers and yen, days, months and time words, people and body parts, and school words — each with meaning, main on/kun readings and one or two example words, nearly all N5.
Part 2
Fifty more kanji commonly listed for N5 — nature and weather, places and directions, the core verbs (go, come, see, eat, buy…) and the basic adjectives — each with meaning, main on/kun readings and example words, nearly all N5.
Adverbs & Expressions
The N5 words that hold sentences together: degree, time and frequency adverbs, conjunctions, こ・そ・あ・ど and question words, suffixes, greetings and set responses, each inside a short kana sentence or mini-dialogue, with pitch accent for many headwords.
Food, Shopping & Town
Ninety-four N5 words for eating, shopping and finding your way: food and drink, meals and tableware, shops, money and post, town buildings, streets and transport, position and compass words, and the こ・そ・あ place words, each in a kana example sentence, most with their pitch accent.
Nouns & Adjectives
Ninety words commonly listed for N5 (しんせつ is N4 on the Tanos list): everyday nouns by theme (family, food, home, school, town, time, transport, weather, body) plus the core い- and な-adjectives with their type marked, each with a simple example sentence in kana.
People, Home & Daily Life
Ninety-nine N5 words about people, family terms, pronouns, the body, rooms of a home, furniture, clothes and daily life, each in a short all-kana example sentence, with pitch accent on most cards and own-family versus other-family notes.
School, Hobbies & Nature
Eighty-four words commonly listed for N5: school and study, writing things, hobbies and media, colors, weather and seasons, nature, animals, units and counters, each in an original all-kana sentence, most with their pitch accent on the back.
Time, Numbers & Counters
102 N5 words for numbers and time: numerals and their sound changes, ひとつ to とお, the core counters, days of the week, dates of the month, clock times, relative time, every-day words and question words, each in a short kana sentence, most with a pitch mark.
Verbs
Eighty verbs commonly listed for N5, each marked u-verb, ru-verb or irregular (する, くる and the everyday する-nouns), with the particle it takes and one simple example sentence in kana.
Verbs & Adjectives, Part 2
Thirty-eight more N5 verbs and forty-two い-adjectives, each shown in a short kana sentence with the word in bold; the back gives the meaning, the pitch accent for most words, the translation and, on most cards, the verb group, particle or look-alike to watch.
Grammar Patterns
Fifty grammar points commonly tested at N5 — the particles, polite and plain tenses, て-form uses, たい and invitations, the six basic counters, あります/います, likes and skill, adjective conjugation and comparison, reasons and sequence — each as a prompt with the pattern, a one-line rule and an example.
Drills · 3 decks · 260 cards
Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.
Cloze: Kanji Readings in Words
Eighty short N5 sentences, each hiding the reading of one word written with the 100 commonly listed N5 kanji: on and kun readings, counters and sound changes (さんびゃく, いっしゅうかん), dates of the month and the classic irregulars 今日, 一日, 二十日, 一人 and 大人.
In Context: People, Home & Verbs
Ninety short N5 sentences about family, home, body, clothes, daily verbs and adjectives, each blanking one N5 word (but しんせつ, N4 on the Tanos list) so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint.
In Context: Town, Time, School & Adverbs
Ninety N5 words for food, town, time, school, nature and everyday adverbs, each blanked inside an all-kana example sentence with an English hint, so you produce the word from its context.
Practice · 1 deck · 50 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Numbers 44
- Time & Calendar 47
- People & Body 25
- School & Learning 13
- Nature 14
- Places & Directions 33
- Verbs 27
- Adjectives & Quantity 22
- Degree & Quantity 10
- Time & Frequency 18
- Manner & Certainty 4
- Adjectives & Pre-noun Words 12
- Suffixes & Particles 8
- Conjunctions 7
- Demonstratives & Question Words 12
- Greetings & Set Phrases 6
- Responses & Interjections 6
- Food & Drink 25
- Meals & Tableware 14
- Shops · Money & Post 12
- Town & Buildings 15
- Streets & Transport 9
- Position & Direction 23
- Compass Points 4
- Here & There (こそあ) 9
- People & Family 37
- Home & Things 36
- School & Work 8
- Town & Places 10
- Transport & Travel 6
- Weather & Nature 4
- Body & Health 17
- い-adjectives 29
- な-adjectives 18
- Pronouns & Counting People 14
- People & Personal Details 13
- Home & Rooms 13
- Clothes & Accessories 18
- Daily Life & Belongings 5
- School & Classroom 8
- Study & Language 14
- Paper & Writing Things 8
- Hobbies & Media 19
- Colours 8
- Weather & Seasons 8
- Nature & Outdoors 6
- Animals 5
- Units & Counters 8
- Counting Things 10
- Counters & Suffixes 14
- Days of the Week 7
- Dates & Months 14
- Clock & Times of Day 11
- Relative Time 14
- Frequency 6
- Question Words 9
- Movement & Travel 21
- Daily Routine & Home 25
- Study & Communication 22
- Giving · Lending & Shopping 12
- Handling Things 22
- Existence · Weather & Change 16
- する-verbs 9
- Size · Distance & Amount 15
- Colours & Light 6
- Taste & Temperature 7
- Qualities & Feelings 14
- Particles 16
- です/ます & Tenses 7
- て-form Uses 8
- Desire & Invitations 5
- Counters 7
- Existence & Location 2
- Likes & Skill 2
- Adjectives & Comparisons 5
- Reasons & Sequence 5
- Sentence Endings 2
- Body & Clothes 12
- Verbs of Movement & Daily Life 18
- Verbs of Study & Shopping 15
- Food & Shopping 9
- Town & Transport 8
- Numbers & Dates 6
- Times of Day & Relative Time 11
- Frequency & Question Words 7
- School & Study 9
- Hobbies & Nature 11
- Adverbs of Degree & Time 15
- Manner & Question Words 7
A study plan
- 42 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 21 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 14 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
- Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
- In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
All 15 JLPT N5 decks (1,172 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Readings and meanings checked against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010) and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); example words against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) and the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); reference only, no text copied.
- Kanji selection follows the set commonly listed for JLPT N5; there is no official JLPT kanji list since 2010.
- Readings and meanings checked against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010) and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); reference only, no text copied.
- Word selection follows vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010; checked against the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller, tanos.co.uk, CC BY); meanings checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) and usage notes against Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Pitch-accent positions checked against the Kanjium accent data (CC BY-SA 4.0); reference only.
- Word selection follows vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010; checked against the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller, tanos.co.uk, CC BY); meanings and kanji spellings checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010); meanings, kanji spellings and adjective types checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Usage notes (family terms, アパート and マンション, おおぜい) checked against Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉, 精選版 日本国語大辞典); reference only.
- Word selection follows vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010; checked against the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller, tanos.co.uk, CC BY); meanings, readings and kanji spellings checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010); meanings and verb groups checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010; checked against the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller, tanos.co.uk, CC BY); meanings and verb groups checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Grammar points follow the patterns commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010); rules checked against Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉, 精選版 日本国語大辞典). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Readings checked against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010), KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); reference only, no text copied.
- Kanji limited to the 100 in JLPT N5 Kanji — Part 1 and Part 2; vocabulary follows words commonly listed for N5 (no official list since 2010). All example sentences are original.
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's vocabulary decks; vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list since 2010), checked against the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); meanings and hints checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉), and readings against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010), reference only. All sentences are original.
- Sentences reuse or follow the folder's vocabulary decks; vocabulary commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list since 2010), checked against the N5 list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); meanings and hints checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉), reference only. All sentences are original.
- Kanji readings checked against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010) and KANJIDIC2; words, meanings and verb groups against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); usage notes against Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉; 精選版 日本国語大辞典). Reference only, no text copied.
- Grammar points follow the patterns commonly listed for JLPT N5 (no official list exists since 2010), checked against Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), JMdict and Kotobank. Kanji in the question sentences limited to the 100 in JLPT N5 Kanji — Part 1 and Part 2.
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