List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- earthenware, porcelain, china, pottery, crockery
- Seto ware, ceramic ware from Seto (Aichi Prefecture)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic) colloquial adverb
- terrible, dreadful
- amazing (e.g. of strength), great (e.g. of skills), wonderful, terrific
- to a great extent, vast (in numbers)
- awfully, very, immensely
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) grammar noun (suffix)
- nature (of a person)
- sex, gender
- sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.)
- gender
- -ty, -ity, -ness, -cy
popular JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone adverb
- as (much) as possible, as (much) as one can, wherever practicable, if possible
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to put in order, to arrange, to tidy up, to fix, to straighten
- to get ready, to prepare, to arrange, to supply, to assemble, to buy
- to adjust, to regulate (e.g. rhythm, tune, one's breathing)
- to work out (e.g. business deal), to arrange (e.g. marriage), to settle
popular JLPT N2 mathematics noun noun (generic)
- integer
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- orderliness, put in order, tidying up, arranging neatly
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- fair copy, clean copy
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation prefix archaic
- raw, uncooked, fresh
- natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed
- unprotected (sex), raw, bareback
- live (i.e. not recorded)
- inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude
- impudence, sauciness
- unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer
- blank (e.g. disk), unused
- just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-
- insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory
- cash
- tipsiness
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to grow, to spring up, to sprout
- to cut (teeth)