List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- photography (still or motion), photographing, filming, shooting, (video) recording
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- murder, homicide, manslaughter
popular JLPT N5 numeric noun noun (generic)
- three
- three years of age
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- reference, consultation
popular JLPT N1 physics noun noun (generic)
- pressure, stress
- pressure (e.g. political), coercion, arm-twisting
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun (suffix) noun (generic) noun adverb
- before, prior to, ago
- the past, before, previously, former times
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- money order, draft
- exchange (e.g. foreign)
popular noun noun (generic)
- (dead) body, corpse, remains
popular JLPT N3 adverb noun noun (generic) obsolete term
- even more, still more, all the more, more than ever
- one layer
- lowest floor (of a building)
- rather, sooner, preferably
popular JLPT N2 noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- to fix, to settle, to standardize, to regularize
- constant, definite, uniform, defined, certain, prescribed