List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 polite language noun noun (generic) honorific language
- errand, mission, going on an errand
- messenger, bearer, errand boy, errand girl
- familiar spirit
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form Shinto noun noun (generic)
- miko, shrine maiden, young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines
- medium, sorceress, shamaness
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be greedy, to be avaricious, to want badly, to desire intensely, to covet
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- scale (of fish, snake, etc.)
- serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation rare term
- lapis lazuli
- lapis lazuli (color)
- beryl
- mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail)
- glass
popular irregular okurigana noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- shortish, rather short, somewhat short
popular noun noun (generic)
- full view, total picture, whole story, full particulars, all the details
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- lack of sleep, insufficient sleep
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- (explanatory) diagram, illustration
popular ateji search-only kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- wearisome, insipid, dull, irksome, wretched, vain