List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- health checkup, (general) medical examination, physical examination
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- hygienic, healthy, healthful, sanitary
popular usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty
- lewd, lascivious, obscene, filthy, dirty
popular noun noun (generic)
- architect
popular noun noun (generic)
- stiff neck, stiff shoulders
popular noun noun (generic)
- plywood
popular colloquial noun noun (generic)
- tongue
- tongue (of a shoe), seal flap (of an envelope)
popular noun noun (generic)
- pen nibs
popular noun noun (generic)
- bowling (esp. tenpin)
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle ใช adjective adjective (generic) archaic
- to be careless, to be inattentive, to be absentminded, to be slow
- long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled)
- flaring up (fire), rising (e.g. steam)