List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- uppercase letter, capital letter
- large character, large writing
- the (kanji) character "dai" meaning "big"
- huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year
popular JLPT N1 numeric noun noun (generic)
- 10^12, 1,000,000,000,000, trillion
- sign, omen, indication, portent
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to carve, to engrave, to sculpt, to chisel
- to tattoo
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- sad, miserable, unhappy, sorrowful
- sad, lamentable, deplorable, grievous
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- one's weak point
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) mathematics
- sign, mark, symbol, code
- sign (e.g. positive, negative)
popular noun noun (generic)
- rate, ratio, percentage
- commission, poundage, percentage
popular JLPT N2 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) mathematics computing
- vague, ambiguous, unclear
- shady, disreputable
- fuzzy
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to fall down, to fall over
- to turn out, to play out
- to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism), to apostatize
- to roll, to tumble
- (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- hindrance, impediment