List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- oversight, omission
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to stop, to stay (e.g. the night), to cease, to put an end to
- to contain, to keep (in position, in place), to limit
- to record (e.g. a fact), to retain
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- miserable, pitiable, shameful, deplorable, pathetic
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to lie down, to throw oneself down
popular ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) slang noun (prefix) noun (suffix) abbreviation
- idiot, moron, fool
- stupid, foolish, dull, absurd, ridiculous
- trivial, insignificant, disappointing
- malfunctioning, defective, losing sensation
- incredibly, unusually, exceptionally
- fervent enthusiast, nut, person singularly obsessed with something
- Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- indolence, laziness, sloth
popular JLPT N4 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- shallow, superficial
- slight (wound), light (sleep), pale (colour), inadequate (knowledge)
- short (time), early, young
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to harm, to hurt, to injure, to wreck
- to miss one's chance to (do something), to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to put on weight, to gain weight, to grow fat, to get stout
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- ambush, lying in wait for an ambush