List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- carpet, rug, runner
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- rhetorical flourishes
popular adverb
- in order, in turn
popular JLPT N1 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air), brisk, bracing, fresh, refreshed
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- matter of taste
popular search-only kanji form ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- terrible, dreadful, awful, horrible, ghastly
- tremendous, terrific, enormous, prodigious, stupendous, amazing
- appalling, shocking, staggering, absurd
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb
- everything, all, the whole
- entirely, completely, wholly, all
popular ateji JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- dwelling, house, residence, address
- living, life
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- impudent, shameless, brazen, forward, audacious, cheeky
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- at the most, at best
- to the utmost, as much as possible, as much as one can