List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) sumo noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone go (game)
- fall, decline, lowering, hanging down, drooping, slanting (downward)
- string apron, ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt
- food offering to the gods, leftovers, hand-me-downs
- leaving (one's master's place for home)
- a little after ...
- sagari, to extend a group of stones towards the edge of the board
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- piling up, accumulating, forming a (huge) pile, lying in piles
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- succession, continuation, series, sequence
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- long and large, tall and large, grand, huge
popular noun noun (generic)
- doing as one is told, yes-man
popular noun noun (generic)
- getting mixed up in, getting embroiled in, involvement, entanglement, by-blow
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- white heat, incandescence, (emitting) white light, white glow
- becoming excited, getting heated (e.g. of a discussion), reaching a climax
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) colloquial
- greengrocer, fruit and vegetable shop
- jack of all trades
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- departure (of a train, car, etc.), starting, leaving
popular JLPT N3 suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to punish, to penalize, to penalise