List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- indiscriminately, blindly, at random, recklessly, thoughtlessly, excessively, profusely
- indiscriminate, random, excessive
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic)
- as it is, plain (truth), bare, undisguised, unvarnished, unexaggerated, honest, true, frank, candid
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- common, commonplace, ordinary, familiar, everyday, garden-variety, trite, stale, hackneyed, stereotyped
popular rarely used kana form ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- upright, honest, faithful, conscientious, sincere
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- almost, roughly, approximately, about, around
popular expression adverb
- with all one's strength, with might and main, as hard as one can
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to spill, to drop, to shed (tears)
- to grumble (about), to complain (of)
- to let (one's feelings) show
popular rarely used kanji form derogatory familiar language usually written using kana alone pronoun
- he, she, that guy
- that, that one, that thing
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun
- that way, that direction, over there, yonder
- that (one)
- that person
- there, over there, foreign country (esp. a Western nation)
popular ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- suddenly, casually, accidentally, incidentally, unexpectedly, unintentionally