List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- reply, answer, response
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- ear (of a cereal plant), head, spike
- point (of a brush, spear, etc.), tip, (pointed) head
- crest (of a wave)
- scion (in grafting)
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to collapse, to crumble
- to get out of shape, to lose one's shape, to become disorganized, to become untidy
- to break down, to be thrown into disarray
- to crash (stock market), to slump, to decline
- to break money into small change
- to turn bad (e.g. weather), to change for the worse, to deteriorate
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hold in one's arms, to carry in one's arms, to carry under one's arm, to hold (one's head) in one's hands
- to have (problems, debts, etc.), to take on (a responsibility), to be burdened with (e.g. care of a family member), to have (children, etc.) to provide for
- to employ, to have (on one's staff), to hire
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb
- encouragement, promotion, inducement, incitement, stimulation
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb
- illumination, lighting
popular noun noun (generic)
- document (of proof), certificate, paper, bond, deed
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone abbreviation suffix
- rise, increase, ascent
- income, takings, earnings, proceeds, (crop) yield, return, profit
- completion, end, finish
- end result (e.g. of crafts), how something comes out, finish
- finishing (in a board or card game, etc.)
- green tea (esp. in a sushi restaurant)
- after (rain, illness, etc.)
- ex- (e.g. ex-bureaucrat), former
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- landing, going ashore, disembarkation
- making landfall (of a typhoon), striking land, hitting land
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- joke, jest, funny story