List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) expression
- article for sale, goods for sale, offering
- main attraction, specialty, selling point
- For Sale
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sell
- to betray, to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.)
- to make (oneself) known, to establish (a reputation) for oneself
- to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.), to provoke, to force on someone
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- white paper, flyleaf
- blank paper
- clean slate, lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.
- scratch, beginning
popular noun noun (generic)
- impressiveness, impact, force, intensity, presence, appeal, strength, punch, edge, vigor
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- excavation, exhumation, digging up, unearthing
- discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.), finding, unearthing
popular noun noun (generic)
- punishment, penalty
- penal regulations, penal provisions, penal code
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- board, plank
- sheet (of metal), plate (of glass), pane, slab
- cutting board, chopping board
- chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine), cook
- stage (i.e. at a theatre)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb
- pessimism, (taking a) gloomy view, discouragement, despondency, despair, disappointment
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- fatigue, weariness, exhaustion, tiredness
- fatigue (of metal, etc.)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- skin, hide, pelt, fur
- rind, peel, husk, bark
- shell, sheath, wrapping
- mask (hiding one's true nature), seeming