List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- steel frame, steel beam, steel girder
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- paradise, heaven, Kingdom of Heaven
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- marks, points, score, grade, runs (baseball)
- number of items, number of articles
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to fall (over, down), to collapse, to take a fall, to topple
- to be destroyed (in a collapse), to collapse, to cave in, to crumble, to give away
- to be confined to bed (with an illness), to come down with, to break down (e.g. from overwork)
- to die, to be killed
- to go bankrupt (of a company, bank, etc.), to fail, to collapse, to go under
- to be defeated (in a game), to lose
- to fall (of a government, dictator, etc.), to be overthrown
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă
- letter (e.g. of complaint), letter to the editor, letter from a reader
- contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hit
- to expose
- to apply (e.g. patch), to put on, to put against, to hold on, to hold against
- to allot, to call on someone (e.g. in class)
- to guess (an answer)
- to make a hit (e.g. in a lottery)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- arrival, coming, advent
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb
- mobilization, mobilisation
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- sympathy, compassion, pity
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- children's story, fairy tale