List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- flame, blaze
- flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger), passion
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to strike, to hit, to beat, to punch
popular noun noun (generic)
- sound, noise, acoustics, reverberation, echo, audio
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- underwear, undergarment, underclothes, lingerie
popular obsolete reading adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- (not) in any way, (not) at all, (none) whatsoever
- what kind of
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- approval, adoption (of a motion, bill, etc.), passage
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- house, building
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) biology
- circuit (electric)
- cycle (e.g. Krebs cycle)
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to change, to alter, to revise, to replace
- to reform, to correct, to mend, to improve
- to examine, to check, to inspect
- to do properly, to do formally
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- reclamation (e.g. of wasteland), cultivation, development
- pioneering, opening up (e.g. of a new market), breaking new ground, trailblazing