List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb computing
- taking refuge, evacuation
- backup (of data)
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become muddy, to become cloudy, to become turbid, to become impure (of a liquid or gas)
- to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.), to become indistinct, to become fuzzy, to become hoarse
- to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.), to be corrupted, to be polluted
- to become voiced (of a consonant), to be pronounced as a voiced sound
popular JLPT N3 pronoun
- someone, somebody
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- embarrassing, embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated, shy
- disgraceful, shameful
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) familiar language derogatory fishing hanafuda
- Buddhist priest, bonze
- close-cropped hair, crew cut, person with a shorn head
- boy, sonny, lad
- not catching anything, getting skunked
- the August 20-point card
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- formless, immaterial, intangible, incorporeal, abstract, moral, spiritual
popular JLPT N2 noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- plain, unfigured, patternless, solid (color)
popular rarely used kanji form ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ noun noun (generic)
- unselfish, disinterested, unavaricious, free of avarice
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- name plate, name tag, label
popular noun noun (generic)
- famous book, masterpiece (literary work)