List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus), false holly
- holly
- spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- (suffering) an emotional disturbance
popular irregular reading medicine noun noun (generic)
- shingles, herpes zoster
popular noun noun (generic)
- mallet, pestle, pounder
popular noun noun (generic)
- sun (approx. 3 cm)
- length, measurement
- shortness, tininess
popular noun noun (generic)
- shorts, short pants
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- diving, diver
- unlicensed (doctor, driver, etc.), unregistered, unqualified
- outsider, stranger
popular noun noun (generic) mathematics
- preceding clause, previous paragraph
- antecedent (of a ratio)
popular noun noun (generic)
- prehistory
popular noun noun (generic)
- the whole city
- all the cities, every city