List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- sincere, honest, faithful
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) finance card games counter particle
- end, finish, place to stop
- bound, limit, end
- delivery date (of a futures contract)
- finale (of a noh song), end of an act (in jลruri or kabuki), final performance of the day (in vaudeville)
- trump card
- king (court card; in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
- counter for slices (esp. thick slices), counter for cuts (of fish, meat, etc.)
- only, just
- (ever) since, after
- continuously, remaining (in a particular state)
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- ticket
popular JLPT N2 suru verb verb (generic) intransitive verb mathematics transitive verb
- to touch, to come in contact with, to border on, to adjoin, to be adjacent, to be close
- to receive (e.g. visitor), to attend to, to serve, to take care of, to look after, to act towards, to deal with, to see
- to receive (news), to get, to hear
- to encounter, to come across
- to be tangent to
- to make touch, to bring into contact with, to bring adjacent to, to bring close, to connect
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- entertainment (of guests; esp. in the corporate world), treating (to food and drinks), wining and dining
popular JLPT N2 noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun noun (generic)
- separate, respective, different
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- theory, reason, logic
- (unreasonable) argument, strained logic, excuse, pretext
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to branch, to fork, to diverge
- to separate, to split, to divide
- to disperse, to scatter
popular pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- my, our, one's own
popular noun noun (generic)
- tightening