List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to confide, to reveal, to disclose, to lay bare, to speak frankly, to open (one's heart)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- mosquito net
popular rarely used kanji form ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- obstinate, stubborn, headstrong
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sharpen, to hone, to whet, to grind
- to wash (rice)
- to scour, to polish, to burnish
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to grow long (e.g. hair, nails)
- to lengthen, to extend, to stretch
- to reach out, to hold out
- to straighten, to smooth out
- to spread evenly (dough, cream, etc.)
- to dilute, to thin out
- to postpone
- to prolong
- to strengthen, to develop, to expand
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- goblin, apparition, monster, ghost, phantom, spectre, specter
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to examine, to look up, to investigate, to check up, to sense, to study, to inquire, to search
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pass (e.g. car), to overtake
- to surpass, to outstrip, to get ahead of, to outdistance
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be shut, to close, to be closed
- to be firm (of a body, face, etc.), to be well-knit
- to be locked
- to tighten, to be tightened
- to become sober, to become tense
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb humble language
- to assume the posture of praying, to press the palms and fingers of both hands together, to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha), to pay one's respects
- to beg, to make a supplication
- to see (something or someone of high status)