List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- advance warning, previous notice, prior announcement
- herald, harbinger, forerunner, portent, sign, omen
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- total destruction, complete destruction, annihilation, being wiped out
- total defeat, complete failure
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to operate (e.g. a machine), to handle, to manage, to control, to maneuver, to steer
- to have a good command of (a language), to play proficiently (of a musical instrument)
- to work (a puppet), to pull the strings of a puppet
- to manipulate (a person, public opinion, etc.), to pull the strings, to control from the shadows, to mastermind
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- shortness of breath, panting, puffing
- running out of steam (of the economy, a project, etc.), losing momentum, loss of efficiency
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to lend, to loan, to let out on hire
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 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to compose (a Japanese poem), to write, to use as the theme of a poem
- to recite (e.g. a poem), to chant, to intone
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- dirty, filthy, foul, unclean
- disordered, messy, untidy, poor (e.g. handwriting)
- indecent (language, etc.), dirty, vulgar, coarse
- dastardly, mean, base, underhanded
- stingy, greedy