List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb boxing computing baseball sports abbreviation
- fall, decrease, drop, going down
- knocking down, flooring, being knocked down, being floored
- being out of action (due to illness, exhaustion, etc.), being down (e.g. with a cold), being knocked out (from alcohol), being out of it, collapsing
- going down (of a computer system, server, etc.), crashing
- (number of) outs
- being down (in points, games, etc.), being behind, trailing
- down (in American football)
- down (feathers)
- down jacket
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation sports rare term
- double
- double bed, hotel room with a double bed
- double-breasted
- double-cuffed
- double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters)
- doubles (e.g. in tennis)
- biracial person (esp. half-Japanese), person of mixed parentage
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- dam
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- dance, dancing
popular JLPT N3 food, cooking noun noun (generic) interjection
- cheese
- tee (piping), T-joint
- cheese (said when taking a photograph)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- team
popular noun noun (generic)
- chain (bicycle, measuring, tire, etc.)
- chain (store, hotel, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb sports abbreviation
- change, changing
- exchange (e.g. of goods)
- change of sides (in baseball, American football, etc.)
- switching ends (in tennis, volleyball, etc.)
popular irregular reading food, cooking noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- chicken
- coward, scaredy-cat, chicken, wuss
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- ticket