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JLPT N1 · Noun

よし (yoshi)

よし is a Japanese noun meaning “reason; significance”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
よし
Romaji
yoshi
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. reason; significance; cause · noun
  2. piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ... · noun

Example sentences

それについては知る由もなかった。
She had no way to know about it.
Tatoeba #205685

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Source: JMdict entry 1541760 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.