List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- grave, gravesite, tomb
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun (suffix)
- sunset, sundown, nightfall, dusk
- end, close
- year-end, end of the year
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to throw, to fling, to hurl, to toss
- to neglect, to abandon, to leave alone, to give up on, to leave undone, to leave unfinished
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- direction, district, area
- field (e.g. of study), sphere, quarter, aspect, angle
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- law, jurisprudence
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- aid, help, assistance, assistant, counselor, counsellor, adviser, advisor
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- huge, vast, enormous, colossal, extensive, large
- swelling, expansion
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- last years, closing years, last days, closing days, end, last stage, final stages, terminal stage (of a disease)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) colloquial noun (suffix)
- festival, feast, matsuri
- harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob, online shaming, flaming
- galore (as in "goals galore"), frenzy, mania
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- world, society, public
- life, lifetime
- age, era, period, epoch, generation
- reign, rule
- the times
- world (of existence)