List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) archaic
- opportunity, occasion, chance
- order, sequence
- successor
popular JLPT N4 onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle
- soon, before long, any time now, momentarily
- slowly, quietly, steadily, gradually, gingerly
- already, about time
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to remove, to get rid of, to take away, to eliminate
- to exclude, to except, to leave out, to omit
- to kill (a traitor, opponent, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic)
- child (esp. one of elementary school age or younger)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- fraction (part of), decimal fraction
popular JLPT N3 adverb
- (not) at all, (not) a bit, (not) in the least, (not) in the slightest
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb
- still more, even more, all the more
- still less, even less
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- floor
- stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player)
- dining platform built across a river
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- barbershop, barber shop, barber
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to invite, to ask
- to beckon, to wave someone in, to gesture to
- to call in, to send for, to summon
- to bring on oneself, to cause, to incur, to lead to, to result in