List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- cutting edge, leading edge, forefront, state of the art
- tip, end
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- bacterium, bacteria, germ
popular historical term noun noun (generic) colloquial
- zaibatsu, financial conglomerate, industrial group
- rich person
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- umbrella, parasol
- something shaped like an umbrella or a conical hat, shade (of a lamp), mushroom cap, pileus
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- acid
- sourness, sour taste
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- prayer, supplication
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- order, observance, discipline
- rules, law, regulations
亀かめkamepopular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- tortoise, turtle
- heavy drinker
- turtle crest, turtle mon
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- objectivity, objective, object (philosophical)
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- excitement, stimulation, agitation, arousal