List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- speaking by proxy, speaking for (someone else), acting as spokesman (for), representing (the views, feelings, etc. of)
- payment by proxy, compensation by proxy, paying on behalf (of)
- acting for (someone else), carrying out (on someone's behalf)
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- hating, strongly disliking
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- research, investigation, enquiry, inquiry, study
popular search-only kana form chemistry noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- carbonic acid
- carbonated water, carbonated drink
- baking soda, sodium carbonate
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- value, worth, merit
- estimation, evaluation, appraisal
popular rarely used kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to change (one's clothes)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- advice, warning
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil), picotee morning glory, ivy morning glory
- funnel-shaped object, bell (e.g. of a trumpet), funnel-shaped urinal
- rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- opposition, resistance, insubordination, defiance, hostility, rebellion
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to let fly, to make fly, to send flying, to blow off (e.g. in the wind), to launch, to fire, to hurl, to shoot
- to skip over, to leave out, to omit, to drop (e.g. a stitch)
- to run fast, to drive fast, to gallop
- to spray, to splash, to spatter
- to say without reservation, to call out (e.g. a jeer), to rattle off (e.g. a joke)
- to spread (e.g. a rumour), to circulate, to send out (a message), to issue (e.g. an appeal)
- to transfer (to a less important post), to send away (e.g. to a provincial branch), to demote
- to dispatch quickly (e.g. a reporter)
- to get rid of, to burn off (alcohol)
- to attack (e.g. with a leg manoeuvre)
- to do vigorously, to do roughly, to do energetically