List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- substitution
- alternative, substitute
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) adverb
- daytime, during the day, time from sunrise until sunset, diurnal period
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- cemetery, graveyard
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- text (of a book, document, etc.), body (of a letter)
- this passage, this sentence
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- at one's feet, underfoot, one's step (as in "watch your step")
- gait, pace, step
- most recent, current
popular rarely used kanji form adverb
- until now, till now, up to now, up to the present, so far
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- transport, freight, shipping, moving (goods)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pin down, to hold down, to press down, to hold in place, to hold steady
- to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand), to clutch (a body part in pain), to press (a body part)
- to get a hold of, to obtain, to seize, to catch, to arrest
- to grasp (a point), to comprehend
- to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to repress, to hold back, to check, to curb, to contain
popular ateji rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- weight
- weight (e.g. of someone's words), burden, grandeur, dignity
- importance, significance
popular JLPT N3 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- various, varied, diverse, all sorts of