List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- poor person, the poor
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- bottling
- bottled
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) archaic
- undutifulness to one's parents, lack of filial piety
- (the crime of) cursing one's parents
- disowning one's child
popular noun noun (generic)
- real estate agent, realtor
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- bad(-tasting), unpalatable, unsavoury, unsavory, awful, terrible, unpleasant
- poor, unskillful, unskilful, bungling, clumsy
- ugly, unattractive, homely, plain
- awkward, problematic, troublesome, unfavorable, unfavourable, unwise
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone go (game) kabuki archaic
- bill, bill of sale, payment invoice
- tab (for later payment), credit
- attachment, contact play
- sound effect produced by striking a wooden board with clappers
- letter
- reason, motive, pretext
- one's fortune, one's luck
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb go (game) suffix
- to attach, to join, to connect, to add, to append, to affix, to stick, to glue, to fasten, to sew on, to apply (ointment), to put against
- to furnish (a house with)
- to wear, to put on
- to keep a diary, to make an entry
- to appraise, to set (a price)
- to allot, to budget, to assign
- to bring alongside
- to place (under guard or doctor)
- to follow (someone), to shadow, to tail, to stalk
- to load, to give (courage to)
- to keep (an eye on)
- to establish (relations or understanding)
- to turn on (a light)
- to produce flowers (of a plant), to produce fruit
- to attach, to play an attachment
- to do intensely, to do fiercely, to do strongly
- to be used to (doing), to be accustomed to
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to add (to), to add on, to append
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- dish towel, tea towel, dishcloth
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb formal or literary term intransitive verb
- to spread out (e.g. a futon), to lay out
- to lay down (e.g. a cushion)
- to impose widely (e.g. martial law), to promulgate
- to pin down, to hold down
- to lay (e.g. railway tracks)
- to deploy (e.g. troops)
- to spread (e.g. snow), to be propagated