Japanese Word Search
Japanese words in romaji, the Latin spelling: konnichiwa, arigato and sayonara, sensei and tomodachi, the neko and the inu, sakura, kimono and origami, and the scripts hiragana and kanji. Long vowel marks are left off.
Japanese mixes three scripts in a single sentence. Hiragana and katakana each have 46 basic characters, one for each syllable; katakana spells words borrowed from other languages, and kanji are characters adopted from Chinese, with 2,136 on the official list for everyday use. Children learn hiragana first, and many picture books use nothing else.
English has borrowed many of the words here. Karaoke joins kara, empty, to oke, short for orchestra. The Shinkansen, the bullet train, opened between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, just before the Tokyo Olympics. A daruma doll comes with blank white eyes: you paint in one when you set a goal and the other when you reach it.
Free Japanese Word Search Online Game
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Japanese Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Japanese word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Japanese has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Anime
- Arigato
- Daruma
- Densha
- Fuji
- Gakko
- Gohan
- Haiku
- Hana
- Hashi
- Hiragana
- Hon
- Iie
- Inu
- Kanji
- Karaoke
- Katakana
- Kawaii
- Kazoku
- Kimono
- Konbanwa
- Konnichiwa
- Kuruma
- Manga
- Mizu
- Neko
- Ocha
- Ohayo
- Origami
- Romaji
- Sakura
- Sayonara
- Sensei
- Shinkansen
- Sora
- Sumimasen
- Taiko
- Tomodachi
- Yama
- Yuki