List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- reading and writing
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- arrival of goods, goods received
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- small, little, tiny
- slight, below average (in degree, amount, etc.), minor, small
- low (e.g. sound), soft (e.g. voice)
- unimportant, petty, insignificant, trifling, trivial
- young, juvenile
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
popular noun noun (generic)
- (sound of) laughter, laughing voice
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- interest, eagerness, enthusiasm
popular JLPT N3 ใ 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 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- near oneself, close to one, familiar
popular JLPT N5 ใ 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