| term | pronunciation | English |
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| 質問 | しつもん | a question, an interrogation, an inquiry |
| 質屋 | しちや | a pawn shop |
| 質 | しつ | quality, one's character, (a person's) disposition |
| 性質 | ていしつ | (a) nature, (a) disposition, (a) character |
| 質問する | しつもんする | to ask a person a question |
| 素質 | そしつ | character, qualities, genius |
| 地質 | ちしつ | geological features |
| 物質 | ぶっしつ | material, substance |
| 人質 | ひとじち | hostage, prisoner |
| 体質 | たいしつ | constitution (physical), genetic make-up, predisposition (to disease) |
| 侍気質 | さむらいかたぎ | samurai spirit |
| 可塑物質 | かそぶっしつ | plastics |
| 品質 | ひんしつ | (material) quality |
| 均質 | きんしつ | homogeneous, homogeneity |
| 実質 | じっしつ | substance, essence |
| 実質的 | じっしつてき | substantial |
| 実質賃金 | じっしつちんぎん | real wages |
| 悪質 | あくしつ | bad quality, malignancy, vicious, malignant |
| 抗生物質 | こうせいぶっしつ | antibiotics |
| 文質彬彬 | ぶんしつひんぴん | refined, handsome and solid in character |
| 本質 | ほんしつ | essence, true nature, substance, reality |
| 水質 | すいしつ | water quality |
| 異質 | いしつ | different (quality, nature), heterogeneous |
| 糖質 | とうしつ | sugariness, saccharinity |
| 脂肪質 | しぼうしつ | fatty |
| 脂質 | ししつ | lipid, fats, adipose |
| 蛍光物質 | けいこうぶっしつ | fluorescent substance, phosphor |
| 質朴 | しつぼく | simplicity |
| 質疑 | しつぎ | question; interpellation |