List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- aluminum foil, aluminium foil, tinfoil, silver paper
- silver-colored paper
popular ateji noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ãŪ adjective (generic)
- bitterness, bitter taste
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun (prefix)
- sky, the air, the heavens
- weather
- far-off place, distant place
- state of mind, feeling
- (from) memory, (by) heart
- falsehood, lie
- somehow, vaguely
- fake
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- waste, scrap, garbage, dregs
- scum, piece of trash, loser
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form familiar language pronoun noun noun (generic) polite language obsolete term
- you, buddy, pal
- monarch, ruler, sovereign, (one's) master
- he, she
popular JLPT N4 suffix archaic
- Mr, master, boy
- Ms, miss
- sir, madam
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb
- kun reading, kun'yomi, native Japanese reading of a Chinese character
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to incline, to lean, to tip, to tilt, to slant, to bend, to list
- to devote oneself to, to concentrate on, to pour one's energy into
- to ruin, to squander, to empty
- to drink (alcohol)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to bless, to show mercy to
- to give (money, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic) Internet
- bulletin board, display board, notice board
- electronic bulletin board, BBS