List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- toothpick
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hang, to hang up
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo usually written using kana alone intransitive verb
- to hang, to suspend, to sling, to wear (e.g. a sword), to put up (e.g. a shelf)
- to hang oneself
- to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth
- to turn upwards (as if being pulled), to be slanted (of eyes)
- to pucker (e.g. of a seam), to be pulled tight
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to balance, to be in harmony, to be in equilibrium
- to suit, to go well together, to be a good match
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- razor
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb
- ladder
- stairs
- going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
popular usually written using kana alone adverb
- soon, before long, shortly thereafter
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to give up, to abandon (hope, plans), to resign oneself (to)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pick, to pluck
- to snip, to cut, to nip, to trim
popular suffix な adjective adjective (generic) colloquial familiar language dated term
- -ical, -ive, -al, -ic, -y
- -like, -ish, -sort of, -kind of
- (something) like, along the lines of
- -wise, in terms of, for, from the viewpoint of, from a ... standpoint, as far as ... is concerned
- Mr., Ms., Mrs.