単たん語ご

た

ん

ご

Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

1

noun

A single lexical unit; used in language learning and linguistics. Can refer to a word as a dictionary entry or a vocabulary item.

この単たん語ごの意い味みを辞じ書しょで調しらべてください。
Please look up the meaning of this word in a dictionary.
毎まい日にち10個

こ

ずつ

新あたら

しい

単たん

語ご

を

覚おぼ

え

て

い

ます

。

I memorize ten new vocabulary words every day.

言こと葉ば
言葉 is a broader term for language, speech, or expression, while 単語 specifically refers to individual words as lexical units.
語ご彙い
語彙 means vocabulary as a whole (the set of words one knows), whereas 単語 refers to a single word.

Compound of 単 (single) and 語 (word, language). The term was coined in the Meiji period as a translation for the Western linguistic concept of 'word'.