List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form ateji food, cooking noun noun (generic)
- sukiyaki, thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- erudition, extensive learning
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- vast, huge, immense, enormous, colossal
- malva nut (Scaphium affine)
popular noun noun (generic)
- developing country
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- punishment, penalty
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb suffix slang vulgar expression or word
- to pull out, to draw out, to extract, to unplug, to weed
- to omit, to leave out, to go without, to skip
- to do to the end, to do thoroughly, to do completely, to do severely
- to let out (e.g. air from a tyre), to drain (e.g. water from a bath), to empty
- to pick out, to choose, to select, to extract
- to pilfer, to steal
- to remove, to get rid of, to take out
- to pass, to overtake, to outstrip, to get ahead of
- to pierce, to break through, to go through
- to cut out (a shape), to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area
- to seize, to capture, to reduce
- to scoop (a story)
- to take out (an opponent's stones; in go)
- to masturbate (of a male), to ejaculate (while masturbating)
- to take (a photo), to record (video)
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb computing transitive verb hanafuda
- to come out, to fall out, to be omitted, to be missing, to escape, to come loose
- to fade, to discolour
- to wear a hole (e.g. clothes)
- to leave (e.g. a meeting)
- to be clear, to be transparent (e.g. of the sky)
- to be absentminded, to be careless, to be inattentive, to be foolish
- to exit (a program loop)
- to go through, to pass through, to give way, to collapse
- to finish a round with more than 88 points (not counting points gained from scoring combinations)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- seal, stamp, monogram signature
- judgment, judgement
- size (of paper or books)
popular ateji JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- seal (used in lieu of a signature), stamp, chop
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- short sleeves