List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- doctor, PhD, Dr.
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- thickheaded, obtuse, stupid
- slow, sluggish, inert, lethargic
- indulgent (esp. to the opposite sex), doting
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- gold
- gold coin
- gold colour (color)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby), to embrace, to hug
- to have sex with, to make love to, to sleep with
- to sit on (eggs), to brood
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get mended, to be repaired, to be fixed
- to return to normal, to recover (e.g. one's temper), to be restored, to improve, to rally, to come right
- to be corrected, to get put right, to be rectified
- to come right, to cure (itself), to get cured
- to sit properly
- to be promoted, to rise
- to have one's crimes forgiven
popular pronoun prefix
- what
- how many
- many, a lot of
- several, a few, some
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- young bird, chick, fledgling
- hina doll, doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- good outward appearance, looking nice, being attractive, making a fine show
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be crowded, to be packed, to be congested, to be thronged (with)