緊張
Kana: きんちょう
nervous
Example sentence
試験の前はとても緊張します。
しけんのまえはとてもきんちょうします。
I get very nervous before exams.
What 緊張 means
緊張 (きんちょう) is a Japanese word meaning “nervous”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.