[ろん, ron] (n) (1) argument; discussion; dispute; controversy; discourse; debate; (2) theory; doctrine; (3) essay; treatise; comment #860
[ろんぶん, ronbun] (n) thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article; (P) #1980
[essei (P); esse-(P); essei] (n, adj-no) essay; (P) #7955
[ずいひつ, zuihitsu] (n) essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings; (P) #9456
[ろんしゅう, ronshuu] (n) treatise or essay collection #10436
[ていさい(P);たいさい, teisai (P); taisai] (n) (1) (outward) appearance; (2) (proper) format (e.g. of an essay); form; style; (3) appearances; decency; show; display; (4) lip-service; insincere words; glib talk; (P) #10492
[かんとう, kantou] (n) (1) opening page of book; beginning of an essay; (adj-f) (2) prefatory #19158
[esseisuto] (n) essayist; (P)
[penkurabu] (n) PEN club; club for poets, play-wrights, essayists, editors, novelists; (P)
[かろん, karon] (n) essay on tanka poetry
[きじゅつもんだい, kijutsumondai] (n) essay question
[きねんろんぶんしゅう, kinenronbunshuu] (n) collection of essays contributed in celebration of something; festschrift
[げいじゅつろん, geijutsuron] (n) essay on art
[けんしょうろんぶん, kenshouronbun] (n) essay contest
[さくもん, sakumon] (n, vs) (1) (See 作文・さくもん) writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; (2) formal writing with little real meaning; (P)
[ししゅう, shishuu] (n) booklet of essays; magazine
[しぼうりゆうしょ, shibouriyuusho] (n) statement of purpose; essay; letter in university application form
[しろん, shiron] (n) essay on poetry; theory of poetry
[しろん, shiron] (n) essay; tentative assumption
[しょうひん, shouhin] (n) something very small; essay; literary sketch; (P)
[しょうろんぶん, shouronbun] (n) short essay; pamphlet; tract
[しょうかいぶん, shoukaibun] (n) introductory essay; (P)
[じんせいろん, jinseiron] (n) one's world view; one's view of life; essay on life
[ずいそうろく, zuisouroku] (n) essays; collection of miscellaneous thoughts
[ずいひつか, zuihitsuka] (n) essayist
[ずいひつしゅう, zuihitsushuu] (n) collection of essays (miscellaneous writings, literary jottings, etc.)
[にくをつける, nikuwotsukeru] (exp, v1) to add meat (or weight); to add substance (to an essay, etc.)
[はだい, hadai] (n) opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines
[はっこ, hakko] (n) (abbr) (See 八股文) eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing)
[はっこぶん, hakkobun] (n) eight-legged essay (classical Chinese style of essay writing)
[まんぶん, manbun] (n) random jottings; rambling essays
[ろんじゅつしけん, ronjutsushiken] (n) essay test
[ろんそう, ronsou] (n) treatise or essay collection
[ろんぶんしきしけん, ronbunshikishiken] (n) essay-type test; essay-based examination
[ろんぶんしゅう, ronbunshuu] (n) collected papers; collected works; collection of articles and essays