List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation food, cooking
- strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow, whirlpool, maelstrom
- kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern
- cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern
- Naruto (city in Tokushima)
- Naruto Strait
- Naruto wakame
popular noun noun (generic)
- interests, stake
popular noun noun (generic)
- local administration
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- rising water (of river, lake, etc.), swelling water, increased water, high water
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- completion, accomplishment, attainment of greatness or success
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- serious damage, heavy damage, being wrecked
- thrashing (an opponent), crushing, giving a drubbing
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation colloquial
- wild goose
- glans, head of a penis
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic)
- lack, deficiency, vacancy
- absence, non-attendance
popular prefix abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- compound, composite, multiple, re-, bi-
- doubles (tennis, badminton, etc.)
- place bet (in horse racing, etc.), show bet, bet that predicts a top 2 or top 3 finish (depending on number of horses, etc. in race)
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- main street (esp. in a capital), main thoroughfare
- most important of the three classes of highway (ritsuryล period)