List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- ignition, lighting, firing, setting off
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- thickheaded, insensitive, dull, thick-skinned
popular ateji noun noun (generic)
- weather, climatic conditions
- fine weather, clear day
- situation, state of affairs
- sea conditions, good day for sailing
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) honorific language
- famous, well-known, renowned, distinguished, celebrated
- your name
popular ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- dull (e.g. a knife), blunt
- thickheaded, obtuse, stupid
- dull (sound, color, etc.), dim (light)
- slow, sluggish, inert, lethargic
- insensitive, dull (e.g. reflexes), unperceptive, unfeeling
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to succeed, to relieve, to replace
- to take the place of, to substitute for, to take over for, to represent, to hand over (telephone)
- to be exchanged, to change (places with), to switch
popular rarely used kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to carry to extremes, to go to the end of something, to reach the limits of something
- to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc), to be extremely (e.g. busy)
- to exhaust completely, to have nothing left (e.g. to say)
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) adverb archaic
- thoroughly, completely, utterly
- severely, harshly, terribly, miserably, wretchedly, badly
- scattered, disconnected, dispersed, smashed into tiny pieces
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- brilliant, splendid, glorious, magnificent, spectacular
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun noun (generic)
- ordinary, average, common, normal, like the average person, like most people