List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- absolute secrecy
popular JLPT N4 い adjective adjective (generic)
- bitter
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- pain, agony, suffering, distress, torment
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) mathematics
- group, bunch, crowd, throng, swarm, band
- group
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- group, crowd, flock, herd, bevy, school, swarm, cluster (e.g. of stars), clump, pack (e.g. of dogs)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone food, cooking
- ending, conclusion
- join, union, connecting
- knot, knotting
- onigiri, rice ball
popular noun noun (generic)
- kendo, Japanese martial art using bamboo swords