List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), domestic Asian water buffalo
- wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), Asian water buffalo
popular noun taking the genitive case particle ãŪ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- water-soluble
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb historical term
- seppuku, harakiri, ritual suicide by disembowelment
- seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- matchmaking, acting as a go-between
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb
- proof to the contrary, disproof, counter-evidence, rebuttal, refutation
popular noun noun (generic) familiar language jocular, humorous term pronoun
- boyfriend
- he, him
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- grief, sorrow, anguish, lamentation
popular law noun noun (generic)
- unwritten law, common law
- unwritten rule
popular noun noun (generic)
- discord, trouble, dissension, disagreement, friction, conflict, feud, bad terms
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to catch (someone's words), to make out, to follow, to understand
- to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.), to inquire