List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to send (someone) back, to send (someone) home
popular noun noun (generic)
- taboo word, forbidden topic
- words or phrases not allowed (in waka and haikai)
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to suffer, to groan, to be worried
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- contempt, scorn, disdain, despising, looking down on, slighting
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) dated term
- gap, opening, aperture, crevice, crack, chink, space
- spare moment, interval, break
- unguarded moment, carelessness, chink in one's armor, weak spot
popular noun noun (generic)
- combustibles, inflammables, flammables, burnables
popular JLPT N3 humble language godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to call on someone, to call at a place, to pay a visit, to wait on someone
- to ask, to inquire
- to hear, to be told
- to implore (a god for an oracle), to seek direction (from your superior)
- to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- rounding (off; a number), rounding half away from zero
- rounding off (views), converging to a common opinion
popular noun noun (generic)
- corpse, dead person
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be piled up, to lie on top of one another
- to come one after another, to happen over and over, to pile up (e.g. stress), to accumulate
- to overlap (each other), to occur at the same time, to happen simultaneously