List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- leeward, lee, downwind
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- obedience, submission, resignation
popular rarely used kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to reward, to recompense, to repay
- to retaliate, to get revenge
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to destroy, to demolish, to pull down, to tear down, to level
- to disturb, to put into disorder, to throw off balance, to make shaky
- to relax (one's pose), to make oneself at ease
- to break (a bill), to change, to make change
- to write in cursive style, to write in running style
- to break into a smile, to let off a smile
- to lower (a price)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to lend, to loan
- to rent out, to hire out
- to hand (over), to give
popular noun noun (generic)
- barley (Hordeum vulgare)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- Japanese-English
- Japanese-English dictionary
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- crossing without meeting (e.g. letters in the post, people on the road), going astray
- difference of opinion, misunderstanding, estrangement, disagreement
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- famine, crop failure
- chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- whim, caprice, fancy
- capricious, fickle, whimsical, impulsive, changeable, temperamental