List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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, herd, school (of fish)
- 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
popular JLPT N3 suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to love
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- handshake
- reconciliation, joining hands, cooperation
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb computing
- compression
- condensing, shortening, summarizing
- compression (of data)