List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone polite language interjection
- good morning
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial fishing
- brow, forehead
- prominent forehead, beetle brow
- not catching anything
popular ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb archaic
- surely, undoubtedly, almost certainly, most likely (e.g. 90 percent)
- sternly, severely
- having no slack, rigid, stiff, tight
- suddenly, abruptly, instantly
popular rarely used kanji form onomatopoeic or mimetic word usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- notches, serration, indentation, jaggies (stair-step artifacts in computer images)
- notched, serrated, jagged, corrugated, milled
popular rarely used kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb idiomatic expression expression
- sneeze, sneezing
- spoken twice in response to someone sneezing as a charm against an early death
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- ticklish
- embarrassing
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tickle
- to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.), to arouse, to appeal to, to flatter
- to make (someone) laugh, to amuse, to entertain
popular ateji JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to get tired, to become exhausted, to grow weary
- to become worn out, to become battered (from long use)
- to get tired of (doing), to get fed up with
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to attach, to stick together, to paste, to glue
- to place together, to put side by side
- to make (someone) get married, to get (someone) hitched
popular ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- slowly, tardily, dawdling, lingering, hesitantly
- complaining, grumbling
- unsettled (e.g. weather)
- loose, slackened