List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular ateji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- being taken aback, state of shock, dumbfoundedness
popular children's language noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb interjection
- carrying in one's arms (a baby, pet, doll, etc.), holding
- up!, carry me
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get free (from), to be freed, to be released
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) honorific language noun (suffix)
- direction, way
- person, lady, gentleman
- method of, manner of, way of
- care of ...
- person in charge of ...
- side (e.g. "on my mother's side")
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) grammar Buddhism
- law, act, principle
- method
- mood
- dharma, law
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- hammer
- hopeless swimmer, person who can't swim, someone who sinks like a stone
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun (suffix)
- point, tip, end, nozzle
- head (of a line), front
- first, before, ahead (of)
- (the way) ahead, beyond
- future
- previous, prior, former, recent, last
- destination, address, place where you do something
- rest (e.g. of a story), continuation, remaining part
- the other party
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- first (of all), firstly, to begin with, before anything else
- probably, most likely, almost certainly, virtually
- more or less (satisfactory), on the whole, reasonably
- anyway, at any rate, for now (at least), for the time being
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb suffix
- to tear to pieces, to tear to shreds, to tear up
- to pick (e.g. fruit), to pluck, to tear off
- to do ... heavily, to do ... heartily, to do ... vigorously
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to occupy, to hold
- to account for, to make up, to take up