List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- protest, objection
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- harbour, harbor, port
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- suburb, residential area on the outskirt of a city, commuter belt
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- item, heading, category, clause
- headword (in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.), entry
popular noun noun (generic) mathematics
- height, altitude, elevation, level
- altitude, height
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- high-class, high-grade, high-quality, high-end, luxury
- high-ranking, high-level, senior
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- lower back, waist, hips, lumbar region
- body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.), resilience, spring
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- bone
- frame
- outline, core
- backbone, spirit, fortitude
- laborious, troublesome, difficult
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) euphemistic
- difficulty, hardship, trouble, distress
- infeasibility, inability (to carry out)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- basis, grounds, foundation, reason, authority
- base (of operations)