List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) colloquial archaic 'ku' adjective (archaic) adjective (generic)
- without
- unacceptable, not alright, unsatisfactory
- nonexistent
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- superstition, superstitious belief
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to ring, to sound, to chime, to beat, to snort (nose), to snap (fingers), to crack (joints)
- to be popular, to be esteemed, to be reputed
- to state, to insist, to complain
- to fart (loudly)
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) Buddhism
- ecstasy
- highest heaven
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb logic linguistics
- analogy
- analogical reasoning, analogical inference
- analogy
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get (very) cold, to get (much) colder
- to feel very cold (of the body), to be chilled to the bone
- to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.), to decline
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- zero, nought
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to find, to discover, to come across, to spot, to catch (someone doing)
- to be used to seeing, to be familiar with
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- employer
popular search-only kanji form expression adverb
- to one's heart's content, to one's complete satisfaction, as much as one likes, heartily, thoroughly, without restraint, to the full