List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice), annoyed, chagrined, (bitterly) disappointed, bitter, vexed, frustrating, annoying, regrettable
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- (moral) decay, (social) decline, decadence, corruption, degeneration, deterioration
- decline (in prosperity)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to erase, to rub out, to rub off, to cross out, to delete
- to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.), to switch off
- to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.), to put out
- to remove (a smell, pain, etc.), to eliminate, to get rid of, to relieve (pain, anxiety, etc.), to neutralize (poison)
- to drown out (a sound), to deaden, to absorb, to muffle
- to kill, to murder, to bump off, to rub out
popular noun noun (generic)
- crowd, throng
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to ask, to enquire, to inquire
- to search, to look for, to look into, to investigate
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- cooking, kitchen work
popular rarely used kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become pale, to turn pale
popular noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- silence, stillness, quietness
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb particle
- extent, degree, measure
- limit, bounds
- (span of) time
- (a) distance
- the state of, the status of, the condition of
- about, around, approximately, or so
- as much as ..., to the extent of ..., like ...
- the more ... the more ...
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to paint, to spread, to plaster, to apply (cream, lotion), to smear, to lacquer, to varnish, to put up (wallpaper)