List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- China and Japan
- Chinese and Japanese (languages)
- dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds, kanji dictionary
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- irrigation
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to look after (often medically), to take care of
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to loosen, to slacken
- to relax (attention, efforts, etc.), to let down (one's guard), to relieve (tension)
- to relax (a rule), to ease (e.g. restrictions), to loosen (control)
- to reduce (speed), to slow down, to ease up
- to make more gradual (of a slope)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) Buddhism
- look, appearance
- spectacle, sight
- observation meditation
- outlook on ..., view of ...
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to go through, to pierce, to penetrate
- to run through (e.g. a river through a city), to pass through
- to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.), to carry out, to persist with, to keep (e.g. faith), to maintain (e.g. independence)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- time, pause
- space
- room
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- stupid, foolish, idiotic, inane
- fool, idiot, blockhead, half-wit
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- relationship, relation, terms (good, friendly, etc.)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (prefix) slang Kansai-ben suffix
- circle
- entirety, whole, full, complete
- money, dough, moola
- enclosure inside a castle's walls
- soft-shelled turtle
- suffix for ship names, suffix for names of people (esp. infants), suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc., suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.