List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- embroidery
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- living in peace, living a quiet life
- being content with one's present position, being satisfied with one's lot
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- salty taste, saltiness
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form formal or literary term pronoun poetical term colloquial
- we, us
- I, me
- you
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.), detection, exposure, disclosure
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun (suffix)
- tone deafness, amusia, having no ear for music
- having no sense of (e.g. direction), being hopeless when it comes to (e.g. computers), -illiterate
popular noun noun (generic)
- measuring container, measuring box, measure
- box (seating at a theatre, etc.)
- square on a grid, cell of a grid
- square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)
popular noun noun (generic)
- falling down one after another (like dominoes)
- toppling shogi pieces (lined up in a row)
popular noun noun (generic)
- gentlemen's agreement
popular noun noun (generic) historical term
- axle, pivot
- center (of power, activity), central point
- the Axis (WWII alliance)