List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- each country, every country, various countries, all countries
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic)
- every kind, all sorts
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- each place, every place, various places, all parts (of the country, world, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) abbreviation shogi astronomy
- angle
- square, cube
- bishop
- third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)
- Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
- jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- horn, antler
- antenna, feeler, tentacle (e.g. of a snail)
- horn-like projection (e.g. peaks of whipped cream)
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic)
- student discount
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- forehead, brow
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to tear, to rip up
- to cut up, to cleave, to cut open (esp. the abdomen)
- to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers)
- to spare (time, money, etc.), to use part of something
- to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to discount, to reduce (the price), to take off (a percentage)
- to take with a grain of salt, to not take at face value, to discount
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to break, to be smashed
- to split, to crack, to fissure, to be torn
- to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.), to split (e.g. of a party)
- to come to light, to become clear, to be identified, to be revealed
- to become distorted (of sound), to clip
- to be divisible (without a remainder)
- to drop below a minimum