List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone expression noun noun (generic) adverb
- everywhere, all over, throughout
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb ใช adjective adjective (generic) expression transitive verb
- discourtesy, impoliteness
- excuse me, goodbye
- to leave
- to be rude
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to shrink, to contract, to diminish (in size)
popular JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- youthful, young, young-looking
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- caution, admonition, warning, lesson
- prohibition, ban, commandment, precept
- punishment
- caution, guard
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial sensitive noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- fallen scraps, scatterings
- leftovers, remainder, pickings, odds and ends
- student who cannot keep up in school, dropout (from school, society, a movement, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- shrinkage
- cotton crepe
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb noun noun (generic) archaic
- that is to say, that is, in other words, I mean, that (this, it) means
- in short, in brief, to sum up, ultimately, in the end, in the long run, when all is said and done, what it all comes down to, when you get right down to it, basically
- clogging, obstruction, stuffing, (degree of) blockage
- shrinkage
- end, conclusion
- dead end, corner
- distress, being at the end of one's rope
popular noun noun (generic)
- spoken language, colloquial expression
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- ominous, sinister, unlucky, inauspicious