List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular ใใ adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the ใจ 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
- shiranui (Citrus reticulata Shiranui), shiranuhi, sumo citrus, sumo mandarin
popular search-only kanji form 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
popular rarely used kanji form search-only 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.)