List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular irregular kanji usage noun noun (generic)
- wasteland, wilderness, deserted land, prairie, vast plain, wilds, desert, wild land
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- ikebana, Japanese art of flower arrangement
- fresh flower, natural flower
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb dated term
- to be heard, to be audible, to reach one's ears
- to sound (like), to come across (as)
- to be well known, to be famous
- to accept (someone's words), to agree, to understand
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to cut off and throw away
- to abandon, to disregard, to discard, to throw to the wolves
- to discard (numbers after a certain decimal place), to drop, to omit, to ignore, to round down
- to cut (someone) down, to slay
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) dated term
- fluorescent lamp, fluorescent light
- person who is slow to react, someone slow on the uptake
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 chemistry noun noun (generic) archaic
- element, chemical element
- (classical) element (e.g. earth, water, air, fire)
- origin, source
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- exposure to the sun, sunny place
- per day
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to defend against, to protect against
- to prevent, to avert, to avoid
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- innocent, simple-minded
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- lawlessness, injustice, wrong, outrage
- outrageous, lawless, disorderly, unjust, unreasonable