List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to keep (a person) waiting
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to bring out (the effect of), to put to good use, to make use of (e.g. threats), to use (e.g. intimidation), to take advantage of (e.g. one's influence), to season (with salt, etc.), to put in
- to use (tact, wit, etc.), to exercise, to display
popular noun noun (generic) pronoun
- principal occupation, main job
- professional, an expert, specialist
- I (of a government official, etc.), me
popular noun noun (generic)
- witch
popular noun noun (generic)
- spreading out like an open fan
- becoming prosperous
- folding fan, ceremonial folding fan
popular adverb noun noun (generic)
- (if) by some chance, by some possibility, in the unlikely event that, 10000 to 1
- (unlikely event of) emergency, the worst(-case scenario)
popular noun noun (generic)
- premature baby
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- widow
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- point of a spear, spearhead
- focus (of one's attack, criticism, etc.), aim, target, brunt
- force (of an argument), edge
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb archaic
- to give one's name (as), to introduce oneself (as)
- to claim to be, to call oneself, to wear the title of
- to reveal oneself (as), to admit to being
- to adopt as one's name, to take (a name)
- to call out the goods one is selling