List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- stratagem, artifice, trick, ruse, scheme, tactics
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- (having a) haircut, hair-cutting, hair-dressing
- messy hair, untied hair, unkempt hair
popular noun noun (generic)
- era
- CE (Common Era), AD (Anno Domini)
popular JLPT N1 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- long (time that has passed), old (story)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- refusal, rejection
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- monthly tuition fee
popular noun noun (generic)
- station master
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- engawa, external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses
- bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish), meat at the base of a fin
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.), to assume the shape of, to turn oneself into, to transform oneself into
- to disguise oneself (as)
- to change (into), to transform, to metamorphose
- to change radically (for the better), to transform, to improve dramatically and unexpectedly (e.g. of an actor, sportsperson, stock price), to make a complete turnaround
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- cliff, precipice
- precipice, brink of a dangerous situation