List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- cage, pen, (jail) cell
popular irregular reading JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- gloomy (e.g. mood), depressing
- irritating, troublesome
- heavy (weather), cloudy
popular ateji JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to dress stylishly
- to joke, to play on words
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to run (of liquid), to spread, to bleed, to blot
- to blur, to blot, to be blurred
- to ooze, to well up (of tears, etc.)
- to show through (of feelings, emotions, etc.), to reveal itself
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- itchy
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become numb, to go to sleep (e.g. a limb)
- to get an electric shock, to tingle (from an electric shock)
- to be excited, to be titillated, to be mesmerized, to be enthralled
popular JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- dazzling, radiant
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- dizziness, giddiness, vertigo
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to glare at, to scowl at, to glower at
- to stare intensely at, to examine carefully
- to estimate, to guess, to suspect, to judge
- to keep an eye on someone (e.g. a suspicious or untrustworthy person), to watch
- to take account of, to take into consideration
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone adverb
- (not) well, (not) properly, (not) enough, (not) sufficiently, (not) satisfactorily, (not) decently