List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 abbreviation Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land)
- paradise, heaven on earth
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- thing that should be (carefully) avoided, no-no, thing to definitely not do, something forbidden, taboo
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to run, to dash, to race
- to gallop (on horseback), to canter
- to advance (against one's enemy), to charge (on horseback)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- daydream, fantasy, fancy, vision
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone suffix Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to be unable to, to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do
- to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously, to contain (or combine) two or more features
- to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.), to do alongside
- to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
- to think of the future (as well as the present)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- disgust, hate, repugnance, loathing
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- gloss, luster, lustre, shine, sheen, polish
- mellowness (of a voice), youthfulness (e.g. of skin)
- interest, appeal, charm, color, colour, feeling
- romance, love, sexiness
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb archaic
- running away from home, elopement
- outing, going out
- becoming a Buddhist monk, entering the priesthood
popular noun noun (generic)
- shore, bank (of a body of water)
popular ateji godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to persevere, to persist, to keep at it, to hang on, to hold out, to do one's best
- to insist that, to stick to (one's opinion)
- to remain in a place, to stick to one's post, to refuse to budge