List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- gentle spring rain
- thin noodles made from bean starch (or potato starch)
popular noun noun (generic)
- forefoot, forefeet, foreleg, forelimb
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to knock (someone) down, to floor, to beat up
- to deal a devastating blow (from which one cannot recover), to devastate (emotionally), to crush, to overwhelm, to defeat resoundingly, to give (an opponent) a drubbing
popular noun noun (generic)
- youngest brother
- last disciple
popular noun noun (generic)
- last days, the end, one's fate
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- old friendship
popular noun noun (generic)
- shamisen, samisen
- sanxian (Chinese lute)
- the three string instruments used in gagaku (biwa, wagon and sou)
- three strings, three-stringed instrument
popular rarely used kanji form ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- simple and honest, unsophisticated, simpleminded, naive, unspoiled
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- rivalry
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- going around in circles
- circling a temple
- roll-call vote