List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to spend, to expend, to consume
- to waste, to squander, to throw away
- to devote
popular noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- lack of common sense, thoughtlessness, senselessness, irrationality, absurdity
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- sticking to, clinging to, adhesion, cohesion, agglutination
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- sudden rise, sharp rise, boom, skyrocketing
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- rainstorm, storm
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 food, cooking noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone derogatory slang jocular, humorous term expression
- miso, fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans
- innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso
- key point, main point, good part (of something)
- weakling, weak person
- try
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- dream, vision, reverie
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- nonsense, no meaning, meaningless
popular noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ Buddhism
- heartlessness, hardness of heart, coldheartedness, cruelty
- insentient, inanimate
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- colourless, colorless, achromatic
- neutral (position), impartial