List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb derogatory
- to hang, to droop, to dangle, to sag, to lower, to pull down
- to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status), to confer, to grant, to bestow
- to drip, to ooze, to trickle, to drop
- to leave behind (at death)
- to say, to utter
- to excrete (urine, feces, etc.), to let out (a fart)
popular noun noun (generic) medicine
- figure, body shape, build, physique, form
- somatotype, biotype, habitus, (type of) physique
gairaigo Sanskrit origin popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) familiar language Buddhism
- master (of a house, shop, etc.)
- husband
- sir, boss, master, governor
- patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess, sugar daddy
- alms, almsgiving, almsgiver
popular JLPT N1 noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ noun (generic) intransitive verb adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle
- plump, rotund, chubby
- entirely, completely, wholly
popular noun noun (generic)
- daily wages
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- (being) by oneself, with no outsiders present
popular adverb
- very much, intensely, overwhelmingly, excessively, irresistibly, without any obvious reason
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun or verb acting prenominally
- series (e.g. electrical)
- serial
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- stop (bus, tram, etc.), station, stopping place
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo
- to take off, to jump, to leap
- to take the plunge, to decide, to embark on, to venture into, to launch out into
- to step out of the ring