List: colloquial
Words not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics.
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) colloquial
- greengrocer, fruit and vegetable shop
- jack of all trades
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial sensitive
- unsold items, leftovers, remainders, remnants
- spinster, old maid
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) colloquial
- fighting scene, scene of carnage (bloodshed)
- location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra
- difficulties (in a love relationship)
- crunch time (esp. for cartoonists)
popular usually written using kana alone colloquial noun noun (generic)
- gun, pistol
- ohajiki, traditional children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped pieces of coloured glass or plastic
- repellence
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to erase, to rub out, to rub off, to cross out, to delete
- to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.), to switch off
- to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.), to put out
- to remove (a smell, pain, etc.), to eliminate, to get rid of, to relieve (pain, anxiety, etc.), to neutralize (poison)
- to drown out (a sound), to deaden, to absorb, to muffle
- to kill, to murder, to bump off, to rub out
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- resolution (of a display, printer, scanner, etc.)
- degree of understanding, how well one understands a person or thing
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb colloquial
- to slide, to glide, to skate, to ski
- to slip, to skid
- to be slippery
- to fail (an examination)
- to lose (a position), to be demoted
- to bomb (when telling a joke), to fall flat
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb colloquial
- evaporation
- disappearance (of a person), vanishing without a trace
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- marine plant, seagrass
- seaweed
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb colloquial
- to be boiled down
- to come to a standstill, to reach an impasse
- to approach a conclusion (of a discussion, investigation, etc.)