List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- funeral procession
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- encounter, running into, meeting with (e.g. an accident), being confronted with (e.g. a difficulty)
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- speckled with white, salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)
- marbling (of beef)
- (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water
- formation of frost
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- hateful, detestable, abominable, vexing, provoking
- amazing, fantastic, admirable, lovely, wonderful
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) historical term
- long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana)
- tachi, sabre-like sword worn on the hip with the blade facing down
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- lazy person, lazy fellow, slothful person
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to spin, to make yarn
- to spin (a tale), to assemble (e.g. words), to put together
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- ink painting
popular noun noun (generic)
- main object, principal object, true aim
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- adaptation (of a novel, play, etc.)