List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- bathroom
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- furoshiki, wrapping cloth, cloth wrapper
popular search-only kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to lay (something) face down, to place upside down, to turn over (face down)
- to point downwards (one's eyes, head, etc.), to cast down (one's eyes)
- to lay (oneself) face down, to lie face down, to lie flat (on one's stomach), to throw (oneself) to the ground
- to conceal, to hide, to keep secret, to place in hiding (e.g. troops for an ambush)
- to bring (someone) down, to kill
- to lie down (and sleep), to go to bed (with an illness)
popular noun noun (generic) prefix abbreviation
- assistant, associate, vice-, sub-, deputy, substitute, auxiliary, supplementary, additional, collateral
- duplicate, copy
- adverb
popular JLPT N2 grammar noun noun (generic)
- adverb
popular search-only kana form obsolete kanji search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- Buddha, Shakyamuni
- Buddhist image, figure of Buddha
- the dead, dead person, departed soul
- merciful person
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone noun (suffix) prefix
- thing, object, article, stuff, substance
- one's things, possessions, property, belongings
- things, something, anything, everything, nothing
- quality
- reason, the way of things
- used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen
- item classified as ..., item related to ..., work in the genre of ...
- cause of ..., cause for ...
- somehow, somewhat, for some reason
- really, truly
popular noun noun (generic)
- place hidden from view, cover, shelter, hiding place
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- terrific, staggering, tremendous, incredible, extreme
- frightful, ghastly, horrific, terrible, awful, gruesome, eerie
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) adverb
- part, portion, share
- amount, worth (as in "two days' worth"), enough (for)
- one's means, one's place, one's lot, one's social position
- one's duty, one's part
- condition, state (of affairs), extent, rate (as in "at this rate")
- in proportion to, just as much as, to the same degree
- content (e.g. alcohol), percentage
- equivalent to (e.g. an old brother)