List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- raising the ridgepole
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to change (buses, boats, etc.), to transfer (to)
- to possess (of a god, spirit, etc.)
popular botany noun noun (generic)
- evergreen tree, (an) evergreen
popular search-only kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to divide in two, to divide in half
- to divide (among), to apportion, to portion out, to distribute, to allot, to assign
popular noun noun (generic)
- vacuum tube
popular noun noun (generic)
- war of nerves
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- cannibalism, biting (someone)
- man-eating (e.g. tiger), cannibalistic
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to blow in the opposite direction, to revive
popular noun noun (generic)
- volume of water (in a river, pond, flood, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic)
- difficulties in living