List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- coming and going, keeping in touch, visiting each other
- street traffic, highway
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- burn, scald
popular irregular kanji usage usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- frog
- kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
popular JLPT N4 ă adjective adjective (generic)
- lonely, lonesome, solitary, desolate
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- middle finger, long finger, second finger, tall finger
- middle toe, third toe
popular JLPT N2 ă adjective adjective (generic)
- suspicious, dubious, questionable, dodgy, shady, fishy
- doubtful, unsure, uncertain, unlikely, implausible
- untrustworthy, unreliable, clumsy, awkward, shaky, poor
- strange, weird, eerie, spooky, uncanny
- ominous (e.g. weather), threatening, dangerous (e.g. financial situation), uncertain
- suspicious (of a potential amorous relation)
- mysterious, bewitching, alluring, enticing, enchanting
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to smell sweet, to be fragrant
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 male term godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial vulgar expression or word
- to eat
- to live, to make a living, to survive
- to bite, to sting (as insects do)
- to tease, to torment, to taunt, to make light of, to make fun of
- to encroach on, to eat into, to consume
- to defeat a superior, to threaten a position
- to consume time, to consume resources
- to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
- to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- putting out the lights, turning off the lights
popular noun noun (generic)
- place for boarding vehicles, bus stop, bus terminal, railway platform, taxi stand, jetty, wharf