List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- plait, braid
popular Shinto noun noun (generic)
- kamidana, household shrine, home shrine
popular noun noun (generic)
- village, human habitation, human settlement
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- water-based, aqueous
- water-soluble
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- athlete's foot
- water boatman (esp. species Hesperocorixa distanti)
- Asellus hilgendorfi (species of aquatic sowbug)
popular noun noun (generic)
- small talk, chat, gossip
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- orthopedics, plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery
- smoothing (bursty traffic, etc.), shaping, fairing
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to shorten, to cut short, to trim
- to cut down on, to reduce, to scrimp on, to economize, to economise
popular noun noun (generic) railway
- wheel stop, parking block, parking curb
- buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, stopblock
- (wheel) chock
- bollard (for preventing vehicle access), barrier
popular noun noun (generic)
- stroke of the brush, touch
- literary style