List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- copper coin
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) derogatory usually written using kana alone
- baldness, bald head
- bald person, baldy
- idiot, moron
popular usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to lose hair, to become bald
- to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- by itself, automatically, naturally
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- spinning top
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- end (of a street, hallway, etc.)
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to pierce through, to break through
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to prick, to stab
- to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike
- to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.)
- to attack
- to brave (the rain, etc.)
popular search-only kana form irregular kanji usage search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to poke (repeatedly, lightly), to nudge
- to peck at (one's food), to pick at
- to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
- to egg on, to put up to
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to reach, to touch, to get to, to carry (of sound)
- to be delivered, to arrive
- to be attentive, to be scrupulous, to be thorough
- to be realized (of a desire), to be fulfilled, to get through (to someone), to be appreciated, to make an impression