List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- smell, scent, odour, odor, stench
- aura, whiff, smack, flavour, flavor, mood
- faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tighten, to stiffen, to brace, to strain
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- insertion, incorporation, infixing
popular JLPT N2 humble language Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to know, to be aware (of), to be acquainted (with)
- to think, to consider, to believe, to feel
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- depravity, corruption, degradation
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb dated term intransitive verb
- to neglect, to be negligent in, to be neglectful of, to fail to do, to leave undone, to avoid (doing), to shirk, to be unmindful of
- to improve (of an illness), to get better
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- rough (estimate, outline, etc.), broad, general, loose
- generous, openhanded
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to make muddy (of a liquid), to make cloudy, to make turbid, to roil
- to make ambiguous, to evade (e.g. the point), to be noncommittal about
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to dress up
popular JLPT N1 chemistry noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb transitive verb
- neutralization, neutralisation
- neutralization (e.g. of a poison), counteraction