List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- approval, acceptance, recognition, acknowledgement
- private seal, signet
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 い adjective adjective (generic)
- dim, gloomy
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- sending, forwarding, shipping
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 suru verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be contrary (to), to go against, to run counter (to), to contradict, to be opposite (to)
- to infringe, to violate, to transgress
- to disobey (an order, teachings, etc.), to defy, to rebel, to revolt
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation Buddhism formal or literary term
- equinoctial week (when Buddhist services are held)
- Buddhist services during the equinoctial week
- nirvana
- opposite bank, opposite shore, shore on the other side
popular sensitive noun noun (generic) derogatory
- farmer, peasant, farm laborer, farmhand
- farming
- country bumpkin, yokel
- the common people
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- weak (constitution), sickly, feeble, in poor health
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- poor, meagre, meager, feeble, scanty, shabby, insubstantial
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) adverb
- constant, persistent, unremitting, ceaseless
- indecisiveness
- usual, normal, everyday, habitual, ordinary
popular obsolete kanji search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- extramarital sex, affair, fooling around
- infidelity, wantonness, unfaithfulness, inconstancy, fickleness, caprice