List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- solidarity
- joint, collective
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- single word, a few words, brief comment
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- (tree) trunk, (arrow) shaft, (tool) handle, backbone, base
popular noun noun (generic)
- serious wound, serious injury
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 formal or literary term noun noun (generic) mathematics computing
- price, cost
- value, worth, merit
- value
popular honorific language noun noun (generic) archaic pronoun
- people, (all) persons, everyone, ladies and gentlemen
- you (usu. plural)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 ใช adjective adjective (generic) usually written using kana alone interjection
- disliking, not wanting, unwilling (to do), reluctant
- unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, horrible, disgusting, undesirable, unwelcome
- no!, quit it!, stop!
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- big, large, great
- loud
- extensive, spacious
- important, decisive, valuable
- older, grown up
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- sadness, sorrow, grief
- affection, love
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ noun noun (generic)
- essential, important, crucial, vital, main