List: colloquial
Words not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics.
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- matter (to discuss), item (on the agenda), issue, topic, case
- (court) case
- project, enterprise
- advertisement, sponsorship spot, promotional
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) sports colloquial
- an army
- the whole army, the entire force
- first team, first-string players
- the cool kids, the popular kids
popular colloquial abbreviation noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- having graduated from high school (as one's highest completed level of education), high school graduate
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial
- lily (Lilium spp.)
- yuri, genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) colloquial adverb
- fierce, intense, severe, violent, strong, vehement, terrific, terrible
- very, extremely, terribly, totally
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) colloquial usually written using kana alone food, cooking prefix
- legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses), bean, pea
- soya bean (Glycine max), soybean, soy
- female genitalia (esp. the clitoris)
- kidney
- small, miniature, baby, midget, small-scale
- child
popular search-only kana form irregular okurigana rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb colloquial humble language honorific language transitive verb suffix expression
- to rise, to go up, to come up, to ascend, to be raised
- to enter (esp. from outdoors), to come in, to go in
- to enter (a school), to advance to the next grade
- to get out (of water), to come ashore, to be washed ashore
- to float atop the water, to surface from the sea (e.g. of a corpse), to rise to the surface
- to increase, to be raised (e.g. of a salary), to rise
- to improve, to make progress
- to be promoted, to advance
- to be made (of profit, etc.)
- to occur (esp. of a favourable result)
- to be adequate (to cover expenses, etc.)
- to be finished, to be done, to be over
- to stop (of rain), to clear up (of weather)
- to stop (working properly), to cut out, to give out, to die
- to win (in a card game, etc.)
- to be spoken loudly, to be raised loudly (of a voice)
- to get nervous, to get stage fright
- to be offered (to the gods, etc.)
- to go, to visit
- to eat, to drink
- to serve (in one's master's home)
- to enter a red light district, to amuse oneself in a red light district, to visit a brothel
- to arise vigorously (e.g. of voices in excitement), to become excited, to be in uproar (e.g. of a crowd)
- to be complete, to finish
- adds the connotation of an action happening strongly or violently
- above, north of
popular meteorology noun noun (generic) colloquial
- low (atmospheric) pressure, low-pressure system, depression, cyclone
- bad temper, foul mood, tense situation
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) colloquial
- armed forces, military, troops
- (common) soldier, rank-and-file soldier
- underling, ordinary employee, grunt
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) colloquial noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- spare time, free time, leisure
- time (it takes to do something), time required
- time off, leave, vacation, holiday
- dismissal, firing, severance, divorce
- free, not busy, unoccupied, idle
- slow (business), slack, dull
- to be free, to be not busy, to be available, to be doing nothing