List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- time, (the) hour
- favourable time, opportunity, chance
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- self-consciousness, self-awareness
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- independent, autonomous, voluntary, of one's own initiative
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- slope, slanting surface, bevel
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- release, liberation, acquittal
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to protect, to guard, to defend
- to keep (i.e. a promise), to abide (by the rules), to observe, to obey, to follow
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- easy, simple, informal, offhand, cheap
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- process, procedure, sequence, protocol, instruction
popular noun noun (generic)
- hands and feet, limbs
- person at one's beck and call, person at hand, reliable worker
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- lifespan, life, lifetime
- life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.), service life, end of an object's (useful) life