List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- four corners
- crossroads, intersecting street, street corner
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- market, fair
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- city
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to give up (an idea or plan), to abandon, to refrain from (doing), to change one's mind
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory), to come to mind, to recall (in a flash), to be reminded of, to call to mind, to think of, to strike on, to hit on an answer, to seize the crux of a problem
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to point at
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to support, to prop, to sustain, to underlay, to hold up, to defend
- to hold at bay, to stem, to check
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to stop (doing), to cease, to desist, to drop, to lay off, to give up, to quit
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to cease, to stop, to be over
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to stop, to turn off
- to park
- to prevent, to suppress (a cough), to hold back (tears), to hold (one's breath), to relieve (pain)
- to stop (someone from doing something), to dissuade, to forbid, to prohibit
- to notice, to be aware of, to concentrate on, to pay attention to, to remember, to bear in mind
- to fix (in place), to fasten, to tack, to pin, to nail, to button, to staple
- to detain, to keep in custody