List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to strain, to stretch, to string up, to make tense
- to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
popular obsolete kanji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- wax
popular noun noun (generic) adverb taking the 㨠particle ăă adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ăŽ
- ecstasy, rapture, trance
- senility
popular noun noun (generic)
- needless fear, groundless apprehension, unfounded worry
popular ăă adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the 㨠particle
- whole, entire, harmonious, well-rounded
popular anatomy noun noun (generic)
- anus
popular noun noun (generic)
- daybreak, dawn, gray of the morning (grey)
- dawn (of a new age)
popular rarely used kana form noun noun (generic)
- ice house, ice room, cold room
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- phosphorescent light, mysterious lights on the sea, sea fire
popular noun noun (generic)
- fleeting life, this transient world, floating world
- sad world, world of grief and worry
- the world of the living, this life, this world, the present world
- (the world of the) red light districts