- 重要【じゅうよう】 - important, momentous, essential, principal, major 
- 重い【おもい】 - heavy, weighty, heavy (feeling), depressed, gloomy, blue, uneasy, slow, sluggish, lumbering, ponderous, clumsy, important (position, responsibility, etc.), serious, grave, serious (punishment, illness, etc.), severe, critical, solid, established, dignified, sensible 
- 慎重【しんちょう】 - careful, cautious, prudent, discreet, deliberate 
- 貴重【きちょう】 - precious, valuable 
- 体重【たいじゅう】 - (body) weight 
- 重大【じゅうだい】 - serious, important, significant, grave, weighty 
- 重ねる【かさねる】 - to pile up, to heap up, to stack up, to put on top of another, to repeat many times over, to go through repeatedly, to accumulate 
- 尊重【そんちょう】 - respect, esteem, regard 
- 重力【じゅうりょく】 - gravity, gravitation, gravitational pull 
- 重傷【じゅうしょう】 - serious wound, serious injury 
- 厳重【げんじゅう】 - strict, severe, stringent, rigorous, rigid, firm, strong, secure 
- 重視【じゅうし】 - regarding as important, attaching importance to, taking a serious view of, putting emphasis on 
- 重なる【かさなる】 - to be piled up, to lie on top of one another, to come one after another, to happen over and over, to pile up (e.g. stress), to accumulate, to overlap (each other), to occur at the same time, to happen simultaneously 
- 重荷【おもに】 - load, heavy burden, encumbrance, heavy freight, heavy responsibility 
- 重点【じゅうてん】 - important point, emphasis, stress, importance, priority, iteration mark, colon (punctuation) 
- 二重【にじゅう】 - double, two-fold, two layers, duplex, diplo-, dipl-, double-edged eyelid, double eyelid, creased eyelid 
- 重さ【おもさ】 - weight 
- 重量【じゅうりょう】 - weight, heavyweight boxer 
- 重み【おもみ】 - weight, weight (e.g. of someone's words), burden, grandeur, dignity, importance, significance 
- 重体【じゅうたい】 - serious condition, critical condition