List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to strike back at, to bite back, to turn on, to rise against, to oppose, to defy
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- waiting room, anteroom, antechamber, green room
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic)
- prejudice, bias, warped view, jealousy, inferiority complex
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 mathematics noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- subtraction
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to have a cramp, to twitch, to spasm
- to stiffen (of a face, expression), to freeze, to grow tight (e.g. of a voice)
- to shrink (of skin, due to a scar), to tauten
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to detain, to check, to restrain, to stop
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to stretch larger
- to enlarge (photos)
- to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) finance
- moustache, mustache, beard, whiskers, sideburns, facial hair
- whiskers (on a cat, etc.), feelers (on an insect, etc.), (chin) tuft
- shadow (on a candlestick chart)
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ shogi noun noun (generic)
- inevitable, necessary, foregone
- brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation
- one layer, single layer
- monopetalous
- unlined kimono
- single-edged eyelid, eyelid with an epicanthic fold, upper eyelid with no fold