List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to grow old
popular noun noun (generic)
- horse tack, horse gear, harness
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- yearning, longing, aspiration, adoration, admiration
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get cloudy, to cloud over, to become overcast
- to cloud up, to fog up, to mist up, to become dim
- to be gloomy, to be clouded (expression), to be downcast
- to look slightly downward (of a noh mask; indicating sadness, grief, etc.)
popular ateji JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- joke, pun, jest, witticism, wordplay
- smartly dressed, stylish, fashion-conscious, refined
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- luxury, extravagance
- to live in luxury, to indulge oneself
- lavish (use of something), abundant, copious, wasteful
- excessive (e.g. demands, expectations)
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb colloquial
- urine, piss, pee, urination
- breaking a contract
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- spoon
popular ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- rough, wild, rude, harsh, gruff, violent
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle noun noun (generic)
- various, a variety of, all sorts of, many (different)
- variously, in various ways, in many ways
- various things, this and that