List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb honorific language
- to hide, to conceal oneself, to take cover
- to disappear (behind), to be hidden (by), to be covered, to go out of sight
- to live in seclusion, to retire (from the world)
- to be unknown (e.g. of a talent), to be undiscovered, to be hidden (e.g. of a meaning)
- to pass away (of a person of high position)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- feather, plume, down
- wing
- blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.)
- shuttlecock (in badminton)
- shuttlecock (in hanetsuki)
- arrow feathers
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- taking shelter from rain
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- liar, fibber
- lying
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
popular adverb
- luckily
popular noun noun (generic)
- (professional) driver (of a taxi, train, etc.), motorman
- mate (on a ship), officer
popular noun noun (generic)
- New Year's Day, first day of the year
- New Year's morning, morning of New Year's Day
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- field, plain, prairie, tundra, moor, wilderness
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to appear, to come in sight, to become visible, to come out, to embody, to materialize, to materialise
- to be expressed (e.g. emotions), to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)