List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 adverb usually written using kana alone interjection
- what, how
- what (a) ...!, how ...!
- surprisingly, to my amazement, believe it or not, why, ...!
- oh my, wow
- well, ..., so, ...
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb intransitive verb
- acceleration, speeding up
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) Kansai-ben
- bride
- (one's) daughter-in-law
- wife
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- household economy, family finances
popular noun noun (generic)
- scientist
ćçŠăă ăăŽkudamonopopular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- fruit
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- luggage, baggage, package
- burden
- payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- underpopulation, low population density, depopulation
popular JLPT N3 counter noun noun (generic) colloquial noun (suffix) abbreviation
- counter for occurrences
- a time, an instance
- inning (baseball), round, game
- episode, chapter, instalment
- Hui (people)
- Islam
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- channel (e.g. between two land masses), strait