List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- lover, sweetheart, boyfriend, girlfriend
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- consecutive holidays
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 N1 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- hero, heroine, great person
- Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804)
- Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
popular noun noun (generic)
- depreciation of the yen, weak yen
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- coast, shore
- coastal waters, inshore waters, coastal area
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- smoke, fumes
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- inner part, interior, back (of a drawer, one's throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave), heart, end (of a road, garden, etc.)
- living quarters (at the back of a house), inner room
- recesses (of one's mind), bottom (of one's heart), behind (someone's words), mysteries (of an art)
popular noun noun (generic)
- voice, speech, sound of a voice
- sound (e.g. of a TV)
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb hanafuda
- to hang, to suspend, to wear (e.g. decoration)
- to lower, to reduce, to bring down
- to demote, to move back, to pull back
- to clear (plates), to remove (food, etc. from table or altar)
- to keep on playing after one has formed a scoring combination with captured cards