List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- (rock) crystal, high purity quartz
popular noun noun (generic)
- ridge (in field), row of raised earth when planting crops
- rib (cloth, mountains, sea), cord (e.g. corduroy)
popular noun noun (generic)
- rise and fall, ups and downs, welfare, vicissitudes
popular noun noun (generic)
- stone Buddhist image
- unemotional person, taciturn person
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get used to seeing, to become accustomed to seeing, to be familiar with
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama)
- Inari shrine, Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
- fox (said to be messengers of Inari)
- fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes)
- inarizushi
popular noun noun (generic)
- departed spirit, soul of the dead
- ghost, apparition
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) abbreviation prefix
- death
- rejection (of a manuscript, etc.)
- lacking, without
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun noun (generic)
- incomplete, unfinished, imperfect
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- duty-free, tax-free