JLPT N3 vocabulary

The N3 vocabulary study set: 2,139 headwords in 22 reviewable batches (100 words each in batches 1–21, 39 in batch 22). The JLPT publishes no official vocabulary list; the set follows the ordering and headwords of the canonical Tanos/community N3 vocabulary dataset and is a community study target, not an official coverage guarantee. The N3 list builds on the N5 and N4 prerequisites.

The batches

Batches	Page
1–5	batch 1 · batch 2 · batch 3 · batch 4 · batch 5
6–10	batch 6 · batch 7 · batch 8 · batch 9 · batch 10
11–15	batch 11 · batch 12 · batch 13 · batch 14 · batch 15
16–20	batch 16 · batch 17 · batch 18 · batch 19 · batch 20
21–22	batch 21 · batch 22

Each batch page has two views: a compact study set table (word, reading, meaning, notes) and detailed entries per word — parts of speech, core meanings, furigana segmentation, usage notes, transitivity, an everyday frequency indicator (TUBELEX), associated kanji, related words, an original example, and at most one corpus example (Tatoeba).

Provenance

• Membership and ordering: canonical Tanos/community N3 vocabulary dataset.
• Lexical facts (forms, readings, parts of speech, meanings, transitivity, usage labels): JMdict via the jmdict-simplified JSON distribution.
• Furigana: JmdictFurigana; corpus examples: Tanaka corpus via Tatoeba (each carries its sentence id); frequency: TUBELEX Japanese subtitle data — corpus frequency of everyday writing, never a JLPT prediction.

Related pages

• N3 study guide — how the vocabulary fits into N3 study
• N3 kanji — the 367-character set taught through N3 example words
• N3 grammar — patterns that use the vocabulary
• N4 vocabulary and N4 study guide — the prerequisite levels