List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 suru verb verb (generic)
- to face on, to look out on to
popular noun noun (generic)
- (Western) dressmaking
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- business, thing to be done, something that should be performed, information that should be conveyed
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to twine, to get tangled, to get entangled, to get caught (in)
- to be involved (e.g. of money in a matter), to get involved (in), to be a factor (in), to have an influence
- to pick a quarrel (with), to find fault (with), to pester, to hassle
popular irregular reading irregular okurigana noun noun (generic)
- side street (often parallel to a main street), back street, alley, alleyway
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to lead, to spearhead (a group), to command (troops)
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to banter, to make fun of, to jeer at
- to cool, to refrigerate
- to window-shop, to look at without buying
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.)