List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- visit to a grave
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 formal or literary term 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 (a thought or feeling), to hold, to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.), to harbor, to bear (a grudge, ill will, etc.), to entertain (hope, illusions, etc.), to cherish (e.g. an ambition)
popular JLPT N3 adverb noun noun (generic)
- here and there, this way and that way, everywhere, all over
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 numeric noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb archaic
- 10,000, ten thousand
- myriad
- everything, all
- various
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- all people, everybody
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- day after tomorrow
- wrong (e.g. direction)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- face
- surface
- mask (esp. a noh or kyogen mask)
้ขใใmenpopular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) martial arts suffix counter
- face
- mask, face guard
- striking the head (in kendo)
- surface (esp. a geometrical surface)
- page
- aspect, facet, side
- chamfer
- counter for broad, flat objects, levels or stages, e.g. in a video game
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- going out
- one's best clothes
- formal (e.g. language), best (behaviour, manners, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic)
- cloakroom, parcel room