List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- Western Europe
- the West, the Occident, Europe
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic)
- quiet, silent
- slow, unhurried
- calm, peaceful
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- tax, duty
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- touch, contact, touching
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter
- origin, source, beginning
- basis, base, foundation, root
- cause
- (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock
- (one's) side
- capital, principal, cost price
- root (of a plant), (tree) trunk
- part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand)
- first three lines of a waka
- counter for plants or trees
- counter for falcons (in falconry)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- sovereign, ruler, head of state
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) mathematics
- starting point, origin, beginning
- origin (of coordinate axes)
- datum point
popular JLPT N1 abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- atomic bomb, A-bomb
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- entrance, front door, entryway, entranceway, entry hall, vestibule, porch, foyer, mud room
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- active duty, active service
- student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school, student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try