List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) abbreviation archaic ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- tea
- tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
- tea preparation, making tea
- brown
- mockery
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- neutrality
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone hanafuda
- insect, bug, cricket, moth
- worm, roundworm
- thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious
- nervousness, fretfulness
- person devoted to one thing, single-minded person
- valve core
- mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- carving, engraving, sculpture
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- root, source, origin
- foundation, basis, essence
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to visit, to call on, to pay a visit to
popular noun noun (generic)
- disaster preparedness, prevention of damage resulting from a natural disaster, protection against disaster
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- essence, true nature, substance, reality
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- genuine article, real thing, real deal
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb biology
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