List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- respiratory tract, air duct
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb astronomy
- backward movement, reverse movement, going backwards, retrogression, going in the wrong direction, going against (e.g. the times), running counter to
- retrograde motion
popular noun noun (generic) mathematics
- sphere, globe, orb
- ball
popular noun noun (generic)
- old family, old-established family
- one's old home, one's childhood home
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- monetary value
popular noun noun (generic)
- worldly-wise man
popular military noun noun (generic)
- sergeant
popular Buddhism noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- kasaya, monk's stole
- wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder)
popular mathematics noun noun (generic)
- coefficient, factor, proportional constant
popular noun noun (generic)
- (police officer's) baton, truncheon, billy club