List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular medicine noun noun (generic)
- (state of) apparent death, suspended animation
popular abbreviation Buddhism noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- temple (esp. large one), monastery
- temple building
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- kappa, mythical water-dwelling creature
- excellent swimmer
- cucumber
- cucumber sushi wrapped in nori
popular Buddhism expression noun noun (generic) idiomatic expression
- fiery chariot (that carries the souls of sinners into hell)
- desperate financial situation, dire straits
popular noun noun (generic)
- origin of a fire
popular noun noun (generic)
- excess or deficiency, too much or too little
popular noun noun (generic)
- nuclear explosion
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- isolation, separation, remoteness, seclusion, reclusion, inaccessibility, sequestration
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to slip off
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- sliding down (a slope, mountainside), slipping down