List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck)
- dream on the night of setsubun
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- solemn (ceremony, atmosphere, etc.), austere, grave, majestic, dignified, stately, impressive
popular noun noun (generic)
- afterword, postscript
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) mathematics physics
- slope, incline, gradient, grade, pitch
- slope (of a linear function)
- gradient (vector calculus)
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb abbreviation
- forbidding mentioning (something to others), imposing silence (on), ordering (someone) to keep quiet, muzzling (someone), gagging, hushing up
- hush money
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- surrender, submission, capitulation
- being defeated (e.g. by a problem), giving up, giving in
popular JLPT N1 counter rare term noun noun (generic)
- counter for books
- volume
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be in disorder, to lie scattered around
popular JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- sour, acid
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- preliminary investigation, preliminary inquiry
- preparation (for a class), going over one's lessons (in advance), studying ahead