List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- musical play, opera
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- starting (e.g. of an engine), engaging (e.g. of a lock)
- expenses, costs
- attack (esp. a corner approach)
- barb (of a fish hook)
- charge, duty, person in charge, official, clerk
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become slightly sweaty, to sweat a little, to become moist with sweat
popular search-only kanji form noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- (fully) exposed, bare, uncovered, in full view, undisguised, broad (accent)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- fake (work), counterfeit
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- lifeboat
- friend in need, helping hand, timely help
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- promotion, encouragement, fostering, furtherance
- unwanted help (usu. unintentionally harmful), unnecessary help, disservice
popular rarely used kanji form food, cooking noun noun (generic)
- grilled fish
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- raising and lowering
- fluctuation (of prices, interest rates, etc.)
- praising and belittling
- setting out (meals, etc.) and clearing away
- ebb and flow (of the tide)
- rising and falling (pitch, tone, etc.), modulation
popular noun noun (generic)
- up-train, train heading toward the starting point of its route