List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- (flower) bud
- promising young person, budding beauty
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to worry about, to be anxious about, to be concerned about
- to lament, to grieve, to feel sorrow for
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to rub, to chafe, to strike (match), to file, to frost (glass)
- to squander (one's money), to run through (one's fortune), to lose money (e.g. by gambling)
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to store, to save up, to stock up on, to lay in stock, to set aside
- to accumulate (e.g. knowledge), to build up (e.g. experience), to develop (e.g. one's skills)
- to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.), to wear
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sell wholesale
- to grate (e.g. vegetables)
- to cut up fish
popular rarely used kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to warn against, to caution against
- to admonish, to scold, to rebuke
- to prohibit, to forbid, to ban
- to be cautious
- to detest, to loathe
- to punish
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- admiration, wonder, astonishment
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- hair's breadth
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to fall into (e.g. a hole)
- to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.)
- to fall into (a trap, etc.)
- to fall, to surrender, to capitulate
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to plan, to intend, to aspire to, to set aims (sights on)