List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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
popular noun noun (generic)
- late summer heat, lingering summer heat
popular noun noun (generic)
- charity, benevolence, philanthropy
popular JLPT N1 philosophy noun noun (generic) psychology psychoanalysis
- ego
- self
- ego
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to cancel, to withdraw, to retract, to take back (words, etc.), to revoke
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to be, to exist, to live
- to have
- to be located
- to be equipped with
- to happen, to come about
- to exist (in a completed state), to be (something unchanged in its current state)
popular noun noun (generic)
- place of origin (of a plant or animal species, etc.), natural habitat, original home
- place of origin (of manufactured goods)