List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb intransitive verb
- longing, yearning, aspiration, adoration
popular noun noun (generic)
- copper line, copper wire
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- gong, tam-tam
popular irregular okurigana godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to stand up straight, to stick up (e.g. of hair), to stand (e.g. of a tree)
- to stand up abruptly, to jump to one's feet
- to stand (doing nothing), to stand around
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to knock down, to tear down, to level, to raze
- to crush (e.g. enemy), to throw into confusion
- to refute, to pick apart, to undermine
popular colloquial noun noun (generic)
- local train, slow train
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- imperial palace
- festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
popular noun noun (generic)
- southerly (wind), from the south
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic)
- two dimensions
- fictional (in relation to anime, manga, etc.), drawn, two-dimensional
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- stealth
- travelling incognito (traveling)
- ninjutsu
- ninja
- sneak theft, sneak thief
- tolerance