List: colloquial
Words not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics.
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial intransitive verb
- to attack, to assault, to assail
- to challenge, to take on
- to be bold, to be audacious, to be proactive
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb colloquial
- bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage
- bleeding money, red ink, selling below cost
- casualties, losses, sacrifices
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) humble language colloquial
- hut, cabin, shed, (animal) pen
- small theatre (theater), temporary playhouse, circus tent, booth
- one's own house
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) colloquial adverb
- plain, simple, subdued, sober
- reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.), modest, quiet, unobtrusive
- quite, a (little) bit
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) colloquial archaic suffix counter
- box, case, chest, package, pack, crate
- car (of a train, etc.)
- shamisen case, shamisen
- public building, community building
- man who carries a geisha's shamisen
- receptacle for human waste, feces (faeces)
- counter for boxes (or boxed objects)
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- running
- gliding
- first (harvest) of the season
- beginning, start
- kitchen sink
popular irregular kanji usage な adjective adjective (generic) colloquial
- dramatic, exciting, touching
- extreme
popular historical term noun noun (generic) colloquial
- zaibatsu, financial conglomerate, industrial group
- rich person
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) colloquial
- believer, adherent, devotee, follower
- fanboy, fanatic, superfan
終わるおわるowarupopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb suffix colloquial
- to end, to come to an end, to finish, to close, to be over
- to finish, to complete, to conclude
- to finish doing
- to be past its (one's) prime
- to be awful, to be terrible, to suck, to be hopeless