List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- often, again and again, over and over again, repeatedly, frequently
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic)
- spelling, orthography
- file, pad, bundle, binding
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to transfer (trains), to change (bus, train)
- to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.), to switch (to a different system, method, etc.), to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pull out, to take out, to draw out
- to lead out (e.g. a horse from a stable), to summon (e.g. to court), to bring (e.g. someone to the negotiating table), to drag
- to withdraw (money), to draw
- to bring out (talent, potential, beauty, flavour, etc.), to extract (information, the truth, etc.), to get (e.g. an answer out of someone), to obtain (e.g. a result), to elicit, to draw (a conclusion), to derive (e.g. pleasure)
- to get (money) out of someone, to coax out of someone, to get someone to pay, to make someone produce (funds)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- saturation, satiation
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to act violently, to rage, to struggle, to be riotous
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- spinning (textiles)
- spun yarn
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- basin (e.g. between mountains)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- pillow, bolster
- introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story), lead-in
popular noun noun (generic)
- all, everything