List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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 N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- ominous, sinister, unlucky, inauspicious
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)
- 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 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to brave, to risk, to face, to venture
- to harm, to afflict, to affect
- to desecrate, to profane
- to assume (someone else's surname), to take
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- stock-farming, livestock farming, cattle breeding
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- ruin, fall, collapse, downfall, bankruptcy