List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb baseball
- to kill (with a weapon), to slay
- to defeat (an opponent), to beat
- to get (a batter) out
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor), Japanese green pheasant
popular noun noun (generic)
- cutting, tearing off, cutting off, clipping
- cutting (for a railroad, highway, etc.), cut
- robbery with assault, burglary
popular yojijukugo noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- untrodden (region, field of study, etc.), unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic)
- fishing boat
- boat-shaped hanging flower vase
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- stoppage, interruption, cessation, suspension
popular noun noun (generic)
- staying somewhere (overnight) due to circumstances
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 adverb taking the ใจ particle adverb
- for a long time, at (great) length, lengthily, long-windedly, tediously
- (extending) far, (stretching) out, (lying down) at full length
popular noun noun (generic)
- south-southeast, south-south-east
popular search-only kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to go to the top, to climb to the top, to ascend to the top, to reach the summit (e.g. of a mountain)
- to be engrossed in, to be very enthusiastic about, to be infatuated with