List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N4 honorific language noun noun (generic)
- your husband, her husband
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- meddling, meddlesomeness, nosiness, interference, officiousness
- meddler, buttinsky, busybody
popular JLPT N2 noun (suffix) noun (generic)
- ... and Company, Messrs, for the attention of ...
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- mid-year gift, summer gift
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 polite language noun noun (generic) colloquial jocular, humorous term
- change (for a purchase)
- toilet splashback
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- cooked rice
- meal
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection honorific language noun noun (generic)
- I'm sorry, my apologies, excuse me, pardon me
- may I come in?
- permission, leave, license
- dismissal, discharge
- not wanting, objecting to, being fed up with, wishing to avoid
popular JLPT N4 polite language noun noun (generic)
- thanks, gratitude
- manners, etiquette
- bow
- reward, gift
- ceremony, ritual
popular ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to deceive, to cheat, to swindle
- to falsify, to misrepresent, to lie about, to tamper with, to fiddle, to doctor, to cook
- to evade (a question, taxes, etc.), to dodge, to gloss over (a mistake, fault, etc.), to smooth over, to get one's way out of (a difficult situation), to explain away
- to embezzle, to pocket
popular JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- official, governmental, formal
- public (use, matter, forum, etc.), common
- being public knowledge, being out in the open, exposure to public view