List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- interest, eagerness, enthusiasm
popular JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- close (e.g. friend), familiar, friendly, intimate
- familiar (e.g. story), well-known (to one)
- close (relatives), closely related
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- near oneself, close to one, familiar
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- spicy, hot
- salty
- harsh (criticism), severe (punishment), strict
- painful, bitter, difficult, tough
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to advance, to go forward
- to precede, to go ahead (of)
- to make progress, to improve
- to deepen, to heighten
- to be fast (of a clock), to be ahead
- to do of one's own free will
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- conquest, subjugation
- overcoming (a difficulty), conquering (e.g. a mountain), mastery (of a skill)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- constellation
- astrological sign, star sign, zodiac sign
popular JLPT N4 い adjective adjective (generic)
- right, correct
- proper, righteous, just, honest, truthful, lawful
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to spare, to grudge, to be sparing (with), to be frugal, to be stingy
- to regret, to lament
- to be reluctant (to do), to be unwilling
- to value, to prize, to hold dear
- to love, to cherish
popular noun noun (generic)
- last day (of a month)