List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular astronomy noun noun (generic)
- solar eclipse
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- boiling water
popular noun noun (generic)
- New Year's greetings, New Year's call, New Year's gift
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- rejection, expulsion, boycott, ostracism
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- little finger, pinky, fourth (occ. fifth) finger
- little toe
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb
- to laugh
- to smile
- to sneer, to ridicule
- to be dumbfounded, to be flabbergasted
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to steam (food, towel, etc.)
- to be hot and humid, to be sultry
popular noun noun (generic) adverb
- dead of night, midnight
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- water vapour, water vapor, steam
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- chic, smart, stylish, tasteful, refined, sophisticated
- understanding, considerate, thoughtful, sensible
- familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)