List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- (understanding or appreciation of) culture, (one's) education, cultivation, sophistication, refinement
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb expression
- abstaining from smoking, quitting smoking
- prohibition of smoking
- No Smoking, Smoking Prohibited
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- muscle
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- Friday
popular noun noun (generic)
- pain, anguish, distress, suffering, hardship
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- poor (at), weak (in), not very good (at)
- not one's cup of tea, not one's favorite
popular noun noun (generic)
- prison, jail, gaol, penitentiary
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tie, to bind, to link
- to bear (fruit)
- to close (e.g. deal), to confirm, to conclude
- to connect (two distant places)
- to close tightly, to purse (e.g. lips)
- to unite (with), to ally, to join hands
popular JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic)
- splendid, nice, wonderful, delightful, lovely, excellent, fine
- sufficient, satisfactory, enough, fine, all right, OK
- not needing (any more of something), (already) having enough, fine (as in "I'm fine"), no, thank you
- rather, quite, fairly, pretty, surprisingly, quite a bit, fairly well
- structure, construction, framework, architecture
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- monthly publication, monthly issue