List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kana form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone interjection noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- damn it, damn, son of a bitch, for Christ's sake
- beast, animal
- person reborn into the animal realm
- brute, bastard
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to arrive at, to reach
- to sit on, to sit at (e.g. the table)
ไธญใชใnakapopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- inside, interior
- among, within
- middle, center, centre
- during, while, middle, midst, amid
- interval, gap
- mean, average
- second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes), middle
- medium grade, medium quality
- red-light district
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- reconciliation, making up (with), making peace (with), being friends again, patching up a quarrel
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to write, to publish
popular ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone adverb
- exactly, precisely, just, right, opportunely, fortunately
- just (like), as if, as though
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to wither (of flowers, dreams, etc.), to wilt, to droop, to shrivel, to fade (away), to sag, to deflate
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to talk, to chat, to chatter
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- outskirts (of a town), edge (of a town), just outside the city limits
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- spinach (Spinacia oleracea)