Japanese Body Parts
Words and Vocabulary and
How to Describe Them?

This section covers the words and vocabulary related to Japanese Body Parts.

In addition, you also get to learn the correct way of making sentence to describe them.

You may find it difficult to memorize the names of the various body parts. My suggestion is to start with the easy one like 髪 (かみ - kami), 耳 (みみ - mimi), 目 (め - me), etc.

Once you are familiar with them, it will be easier to tackle the more difficult body parts.

Before going to the words and vocabulary, let's see how you can describe them in a natural way.

How to Make Description of Japanese Body Parts?

From what you have learned so far, you will probably make the following sentence if you want to describe someone's hair is long...

• たなかさんのかみはながいです。
  tanaka san no kami wa nagai desu
  
  Meaning: Mr Tanaka's hair is long.

There is nothing wrong with the above sentence. However normally native Japanese don't use this sentence pattern. They will instead use the following sentence pattern which is more natural to them...

Therefore using the previous example in the above sentence pattern...

• たなかさんはかみがながいです。
  tanaka san wa kami ga nagai desu
  
  Meaning: Mr Tanaka's hair is long.

This sentence pattern is not limited to describing Japanese body part, it can also be used to describe someone's ability, such as...

• たなかさんはえいごがじょうずです。
  tanaka san wa eigo ga jouzu desu
  
  Meaning: Mr Tanaka is good in English.

Let's see the names of the various Japanese body parts.

The above are the names of various Japanese body parts. Although these words describe the body parts of human being, some of them are also applicable to animals.

And if you want to learn more on different body parts in Japanese and they're pronounced, make sure to check out this extra vocabulary list on body parts.

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