List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- interest, entertainment, pleasure
- implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
popular baseball noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- straight ball (pitch)
- direct (e.g. question), blunt
popular search-only kanji form geology noun noun (generic)
- pyroclastic flow
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb
- many, numerous, various, large number of
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- invasion
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- working away from home (esp. abroad)
- person working away from home, migrant worker
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- two-storied building
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) prefix archaic Kyoto-ben
- young lady of noble birth, princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)
- girl
- small, cute, lesser (in names of species)
- prostitute
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- long-term
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation
- long distance, long haul
- long-distance race