List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- grandfather
- male senior-citizen, old man
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- grandmother
- old woman, female senior citizen
popular search-only kana form irregular kanji usage search-only kanji form colloquial usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- (one's) mother
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 honorific language noun noun (generic) pronoun
- your house, your home, your family
- your husband
- your organization
- you
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- chattering, talk, idle talk, chat, chitchat, gossip
- chatty, talkative, chatterbox, blabbermouth
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 polite language noun noun (generic)
- local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while traveling (travelling)
- present brought by a visitor
- something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation), unwelcome gift, disservice
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นใใชใonakapopular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 polite language noun noun (generic)
- belly, abdomen, stomach
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- stylish, fashionable, trendy, chic, smartly dressed, careful about one's appearance
- dressing (oneself) up, dressing smartly, dressing nicely, making oneself look attractive
- fashionable dresser, smartly dressed person
popular JLPT N2 polite language usually written using kana alone expression
- certainly!, very well, with pleasure, understood!
popular search-only kana form onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb taking the ใจ particle adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective
- ticktock
- chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock), knocking, clicking, clacking, clattering
- dry and hard, (frozen) stiff
- hidebound, die-hard, stubborn, obstinate, bigoted
- scared stiff, tense, nervous, frightened