Word lists
English word lists for the Chinese curriculum and Japanese Eiken levels
Thirteen word lists, grouped by country and exam. English on the left, meaning on the right. No sign-up.
China
School stage
Japan
Eiken
Eiken Grade 3 (equiv.)
1,031 wordsCEFR A1 · about 1,000 words · Japanese meanings
Eiken Pre-2 (equiv.)
1,335 wordsCEFR A2 · about 1,300 words · Japanese meanings
Eiken Grade 2 (equiv.)
2,286 wordsCEFR B1 · about 2,300 words · Japanese meanings
Eiken Pre-1 (equiv.)
2,556 wordsCEFR B2 · about 2,500 words · Japanese meanings
Eiken Grade 1 (equiv.)
854 wordsCEFR C1 · about 850 words · Japanese meanings
Word data comes from the open-source project english-vocabulary (BSD-3-Clause). Japanese lists use the CEFR-J Wordlist v1.5 (Tono Laboratory, TUFS) and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile (CC BY-SA 4.0); Japanese meanings come from EJDict-hand (CC0).