List: familiar language
Words and expressions used orally with friends and family.
popular honorific language noun noun (generic) familiar language
- older brother, elder brother
- brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
- young man, buddy, fella, laddie
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone familiar language noun noun (generic) Hokkaido-ben
- one's father, one's old man, dad, pops
- middle-aged (or older) man, old man, geezer
- one's boss
- proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.), landlord
- grizzly bear
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) familiar language derogatory fishing hanafuda
- Buddhist priest, bonze
- close-cropped hair, crew cut, person with a shorn head
- boy, sonny, lad
- not catching anything
- the August 20-point card
popular JLPT N2 familiar language noun noun (generic) derogatory
- boy, son, child
- mere boy, stripling, greenhorn
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) archaic pronoun familiar language
- myself, oneself
- I, me
- you (referring to one's inferior)
popular noun noun (generic) familiar language jocular, humorous term pronoun
- boyfriend
- he, him
gairaigo Sanskrit origin popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) familiar language Buddhism
- master (of a house, shop, etc.)
- husband
- sir, boss, master, governor
- patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess, sugar daddy
- alms, almsgiving, almsgiver
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 familiar language usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- police officer
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 humble language noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb familiar language female term usually written using kana alone expression
- receiving, getting, accepting, being given
- eating, drinking, having
- please (give me; do for me)
popular familiar language noun noun (generic) colloquial
- dad, daddy, papa
- sugar daddy