List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular obsolete kanji irregular okurigana JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb
- good, advantage, benefit, welfare
- sake, purpose, objective, aim
- consequence, result, effect
- affecting, regarding, concerning
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- water well
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb
- more or less, though not quite satisfactorily, after a fashion, pretty much, roughly, so far as it goes, technically
- tentatively, for the time being
- just in case
- once
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- fortune, luck, chance
popular JLPT N3 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- strange, odd, peculiar, queer, curious
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb Kansai-ben
- to come near, to let someone approach
- to bring near, to bring together, to collect, to gather
- to deliver (opinion, news, etc.), to send (e.g. a letter), to contribute, to donate
- to let someone drop by
- to add (numbers)
- to have feelings for (love, goodwill, trust, etc.)
- to rely upon for a time, to depend on
- to use as a pretext
- to put aside
- to press, to push, to force
- to include, to welcome (in a group), to let in
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- fixed date, appointed date, set date
- deadline, due date
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- abstention (from voting), renunciation (of a right), withdrawal (from a contest)
popular noun noun (generic)
- fuselage, airframe
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- starvation, famine, hunger