List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to believe, to believe in, to place trust in, to confide in, to have faith in
popular noun noun (generic)
- Shinto priest
- chief priest (of a Shinto shrine)
- Welsh onion
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) 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
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be sticky, to be adhesive
- to persevere, to persist, to stick to, to hold out, to linger
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to move (house), to transfer (department)
- to change the target of interest or concern
- to elapse (passage of time)
- to be permeated by a colour or scent
- to be infected, to be contagious, to spread (as in fire)
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- gloomy, dismal, miserable, melancholy
- spirit of yin
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to give up all thoughts of, to abandon, to despair of
- to make up one's mind, to take a momentous decision