List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to beg, to ask, to request, to invite
- to pray, to wish
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- praise, admiration, commendation, approbation, applause
筍たけのこtakenokopopular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- bamboo shoot
- young, inexperienced doctor
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to roast, to parch, to toast, to boil down
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- finally, at last
- barely, narrowly, hardly, only just
- gradually, little by little, by degrees
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- sparse, thin, scattered, straggling, sporadic
popular noun noun (generic)
- standing in a group, standing up in unison
popular noun noun (generic)
- quick pace, quick steps, quick march
- trot (horse gait)
popular ateji search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to build a nest, to nest
- to hang out (of a bad group), to be based (in), to haunt
- to lodge (in one's mind; of an evil thought, delusion, etc.), to be planted, to luck (in one's heart)
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to make merry, to frolic, to be in high spirits