List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- flute, fife, pipe, recorder, flageolet, shakuhachi, clarinet
- whistle
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- adaptation, accommodation, conformity
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) archaic
- the whole world
- the whole country
- society, the public
- supremacy over a nation, government of a country, the ruling power
- having one's own way, doing as one pleases
- peerless, incomparable, superlative, world-famous
- shogun (Edo period)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana
- scalpel
- chisel, burin, graver
- knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- movement (of the body), action, motion, gesture
- bearing, carriage, behaviour, behavior, demeanour, demeanor
- operation (of a machine, software, etc.), running, working, functioning
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- living together, coexistence
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- profit, advantage, benefit, gain
- rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana
読むよむyomupopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to read
- to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant
- to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine
- to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji)
- to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time)
- to count, to estimate
- to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- inland
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- acquisition, obtaining, procurement, getting (hold of)