List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- library
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- presumption, assumption
- estimation
popular noun noun (generic)
- numerical value
- figure, result, reading (on a meter, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- household, home, family, housekeeping
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb abbreviation
- care, looking after, help, assistance, aid
- trouble, bother
- good offices, recommendation, introduction
- everyday life, everyday affairs, everyday language
- sewamono (Edo-period drama about contemporary life)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 adverb noun noun (generic)
- certainly, without fail
- right and wrong, pros and cons
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- sorting, arrangement, organization, putting in order, adjustment, regulation
- liquidation, settlement, consolidation, clearance (e.g. debt), paying off
- retrenchment, curtailment, cutting down, disposal
popular search-only kana form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) slang sumo go (game)
- star (usu. excluding the Sun), planet (usu. excluding Earth), heavenly body
- star (glyph, symbol, shape), asterisk
- star (actor, player, etc.)
- dot, spot, fleck
- bullseye
- perp, perpetrator, culprit, offender, suspect
- one's star (that determines one's fate), one's fortune
- point, score
- star point (intersection marked with a dot), hoshi
- (pyrotechnic) star
popular noun noun (generic) adverb
- life, lifetime, career
- for life, all one's life, throughout one's life, as long as one lives
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- prosperous, flourishing, thriving, successful
- popular, widespread
- active, lively, energetic, vigorous, brisk, strong
- enthusiastic, eager, hearty, frequent, repeated