List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- a family, a household, a home, one's family, whole family
- (one's own) style, school
- gang, (yakuza) family
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- customer, client, patron
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) archaic
- girl (usu. between 7 and 17), young lady
- female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryล period)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- passenger
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ
- soon, in a moment, before long, shortly
- nearby, close
- direct
- spot transaction, cash transaction
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) archaic
- younger brother, little brother, kid brother
- brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband)
- pupil, apprentice
popular noun noun (generic) adverb
- half a year, six months
popular JLPT N1 counter archaic noun noun (generic)
- counter for small animals
- counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size)
- counter for horses
- roll of cloth
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- place, position, location
- position, standing, status, situation
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone mahjong
- hill, height, knoll, rising ground
- bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game