List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- Japanese clothing, being dressed in a kimono
- Japanese-style bookbinding
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する たる adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the と particle
- (bearing a) close resemblance, vivid reminder (e.g. of the past)
- dim, faint, vague, blurred
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- ice water
- shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
popular noun noun (generic)
- all things, all creation
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- abalone, ear shell
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to think of, to hit upon, to come into one's mind, to be struck with an idea
- to remember, to recall
popular noun noun (generic)
- buyer, purchaser
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to listen repeatedly, to listen again
- to ask a question in return
- to ask again, to ask for a repeated explanation
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- robust, brawny, muscular, strong, sturdy
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- clam digging (at low tide), clamming, shellfish gathering