List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- medicine, pharmaceuticals, (legal) drugs, pill, ointment, salve
- efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.)
- (pottery) glaze
- (illegal) drug, narcotic
- small bribe
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- oil
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- friend, companion, comrade, pal
- accompaniment, companion (e.g. book), complement, accessory
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- play, playing, game
- pleasure, amusement, pastime, recreation, diversion
- play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel)
- flexibility (in a performance, art, etc.), freedom
- flyleaf
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- reserve, spare
- preparation, preliminaries
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- prevention, protection (against), precaution
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- day of the week
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- leaf, blade (of grass), (pine) needle
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) computing
- component, factor, item (e.g. in list)
- element (e.g. in array), member (e.g. data structure)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- demand for, request