List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- rebar, (iron) reinforcing bar, reinforcing steel
- reinforced concrete
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- genius, prodigy, natural gift
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- job transfer, job relocation, intra-company transfer
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- the country, countryside, rural districts
- cultivated land, fields
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- source of electricity, electrical power
- power (button on TV, etc.)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- battery, cell
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to ferry across (e.g. a river), to carry across, to traverse
- to lay across, to build across
- to hand over, to hand in, to pass, to give, to transfer
popular noun noun (generic)
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Office)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling
- present brought by a visitor
- something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation), unwelcome gift, disservice
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) adverb
- foundation, base, basis
- from the beginning, from the outset, by nature