List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to follow (someone's) example, to imitate, to copy, to pattern oneself on
- to learn (by observation)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to begin to say, to start talking, to broach (a matter), to bring up, to come out with
- to be the first to say, to suggest (doing), to propose
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to talk back, to answer back, to retort, to reply, to respond
- to say over, to repeat (what one has said)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb Buddhism intransitive verb
- to sense, to perceive, to notice, to discern, to become aware of
- to understand, to comprehend, to realize
- to attain enlightenment
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get late, to advance, to wear on
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to bear a grudge against, to resent, to blame, to curse, to feel bitter towards
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb suffix
- to scatter, to cause a shower of
- to disperse, to distribute, to spread
- to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.), to relieve, to get rid of, to cure
- to distract, to divert
- to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently), to do ... all over the place
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- turning to the left, left turn
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- rubble, debris, wreckage, tiles and pebbles
- trash, rubbish
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to spell
- to write, to compose, to frame
- to bind (e.g. documents), to patch, to sew together, to stitch together