List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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
popular JLPT N2 adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle
- successively, one after another
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- control, management, supervision