List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kana form search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- abruptly, suddenly, all of a sudden, without warning
gairaigo Portuguese origin popular ateji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- raincoat
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- mole, lentigo, beauty mark, beauty spot
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- in an instant, in a moment, immediately, right away, at once
- suddenly, all of a sudden, all at once
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be crowded, to be packed, to be jammed
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun
- here, this place
- this point, here, now
- these past ... (e.g. three years), these last ...
- the next ... (e.g. few days), these next ...
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection
- farewell, adieu, goodbye, so long
popular noun noun (generic) adverb Buddhism
- 3 o'clock
- afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock)
- three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law), three ages of the dharma
popular noun noun (generic)
- third class
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun colloquial euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- there, over there, that place, yonder, you-know-where
- genitals, private parts, nether regions
- that far, that much, that point