List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
gairaigo French origin popular rarely used kana form ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- romance (e.g. Arthurian romances), heroic tale
- (nigh) impossible dream, adventurous spirit, great undertaking, epic adventure
- (full-length) novel
- romance, love affair
- romanticism
popular ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- London (UK)
popular ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Washington, D.C. (United States)
- Washington (US state)
popular numeric
- one
popular ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 abbreviation usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- (United States of) America, United States, US, USA
- America (land mass), the Americas
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
- fundamentals, the ABCs of ...
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 honorific language usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to do
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone suru verb verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb suffix auxiliary verb
- to do, to carry out, to perform
- to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into)
- to serve as, to act as, to work as
- to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
- to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as
- to decide on, to choose
- to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
- to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
- to be worth, to cost
- to pass (of time), to elapse
- to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
- to transform A to B, to make A into B, to exchange A for B
- to make use of A for B, to view A as B, to handle A as if it were B
- to feel A about B
- verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
- creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
- to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to
popular rarely used kanji form ateji JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone adverb interjection expression
- a little, a bit, slightly
- just a minute, for a moment, briefly
- somewhat, rather, fairly, pretty, quite
- (not) easily, (not) readily
- hey!, come on, excuse me
- thanks, but no, not feasible, not possible
popular noun noun (generic) botany noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation
- first-year student, first-year pupil
- beginner, novice, newcomer, person who has been in a role for less than a year
- annual
- annual plant