List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- originator, ringleader, perpetrator, main culprit, person responsible
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to say in other words, to put another way, to express in different words, to reword, to rephrase
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ noun noun (generic)
- harmless
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