List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- the way back, the way home, return trip
popular JLPT N2 abbreviation usually written using kana alone interjection honorific language noun noun (generic)
- (please) try to
- (please) look
- seeing, looking, watching
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- timetable, schedule
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- prescription (of medicine), formula
popular obsolete kanji rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) archaic
- noodles
- flour
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to weather (a storm, rough seas), to ride across, to sail across
- to get through (adversity), to weather, to get over, to tide over, to overcome, to survive
- to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)
popular noun noun (generic)
- acupuncture and moxibustion
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 polite language noun noun (generic) honorific language
- lunch
- noon, midday
- daytime
- waking up, getting up, rising
popular noun noun (generic)
- alchemy
- way of making money, moneymaker, money-spinner
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to escape (disaster, death, etc.), to be saved from, to be rescued from
- to avoid (e.g. punishment), to evade (e.g. responsibility), to avert, to elude, to be exempted from