List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- of no avail, useless
popular noun noun (generic)
- clergyman, churchman, clergy
popular noun noun (generic)
- antipodes
- other (opposite) extreme, opposite, antithesis
popular noun noun (generic)
- plate glass, sheet glass
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- moat, fosse, trench, ditch
- underground air-raid shelter, dugout
popular noun noun (generic)
- (family) crest, coat of arms
- pattern, figure
- playing card suit (in karuta)
popular suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to be titled (e.g. a book), to be named
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- rare, seldom
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to employ, to hire, to take on
- to charter (a car, boat, etc.), to hire
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- rule, regulation
- settlement, conclusion, end, agreement, arrangement
- habit, custom, habitual way
- countenance in front of another person, face
- love relationship between a customer and a prostitute