List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 honorific language suffix polite language noun noun (generic)
- Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms
- makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)
- state, situation, appearance, manner
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb rare term
- to mix (e.g. water with flour), to dissolve (salt in water, paint, etc.), to mix in
- to scramble (eggs), to stir, to beat
- to melt, to liquefy, to smelt, to thaw, to fuse
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb colloquial
- to melt, to liquefy, to soften (e.g. through heat), to thaw
- to dissolve (in a liquid), to be soluble (in)
- to be used up (of money or time), to be wasted, to melt away
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- business, task, errand, engagement
- use, purpose
- for the use of ..., used for ..., made for ...
- call of nature, excretion
popular ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- careful, cautious, wary, watchful, vigilant, prudent
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 abbreviation usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- postcard
- memo, note, card
popular noun noun (generic)
- home for the aged, old people's home
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) usually written using kana alone noun (suffix)
- barefoot
- superior to (e.g. a professional), outdoing, outshining
popular ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- unreliable, undependable, indefinite, vague
- helpless, forlorn, forsaken
- worried, uneasy
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to meet up (as arranged), to rendezvous, to get together
- to join (of roads, rivers, etc.), to flow together