List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- many colors, many colours
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- prostitute (esp. Edo period)
popular noun noun (generic) sumo
- the beginning (as in "this is only the beginning")
- lowest division in sumo
popular noun noun (generic)
- merchant, trader, shrewd businessman
- expert (in a trade or profession), professional
- woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.), demimondaine
popular humble language male term pronoun
- I, me, my humble self
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice), to trail off, to die away, to dwindle
- to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.), to feel faint, to feel numb, to feel as though one is going to die
popular noun noun (generic)
- one's regular taxi
popular search-only kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to arrive (by car, bike, etc.), to drive up to, to draw up at
- to get used to riding, to get used to driving
popular noun noun (generic)
- gourmandism
- gourmet, gourmand, foodie
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to fall asleep