List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- oversight, omission, something overlooked, thing left unnoticed
popular noun noun (generic)
- headwind, head wind
popular noun noun (generic)
- servant, menial
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation
- kettle
- bald head
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cradle
popular noun noun (generic)
- night stall, night shop, night fair
popular search-only kanji form male term dated term pronoun archaic
- I, me, myself
- we, us, ourselves
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb
- expressly, especially, specially, taking the trouble (to do), going to the trouble of (doing), going out of one's way (to do)
- intentionally, deliberately, on purpose
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- extra (charge, fare, etc.), premium, bonus, (after a number) tenths increase
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to stick, to get stuck, to get caught, to get jammed, to clog
- to be unavailable, to be busy, to be occupied, to be full
- to be piled up (e.g. of work)
- to halt (in one's speech), to stumble (over one's words), to stutter, to stammer
- to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.), to feel pressure, to feel pain