List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- sea bird
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- antique, old article, secondhand goods
popular noun noun (generic)
- number of persons, numerical strength, head count
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- windmill, wind turbine
- pinwheel (toy), windmill (toy)
- Clematis patens (species of climbing plant)
popular noun noun (generic)
- abusive language, violent language, wild words
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to replace, to substitute, to shift, to change places
popular noun noun (generic)
- shadow, shade, shading, gloom
- nuance, shades of meaning, subtleties
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- putting one's life on the line, giving everything one has got, acting out of desperation
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- revival, resuscitation
- revitalization, rejuvenation, regeneration
popular adverb taking the 㨠particle adverb
- very high, high up, aloft
- only, merely, just, at most, at best, no more than