List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- biology
popular noun noun (generic)
- sperm, spermatozoon
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb
- (shout of) encouragement, cheering, rooting, support
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- vocal music
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb intransitive verb
- steel manufacture
popular noun noun (generic)
- west entrance, west exit
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb Buddhism
- intake (e.g. of salt), ingestion
- absorption (e.g. of new knowledge), adoption (e.g. of foreign culture), assimilation
- reception and protection
popular noun noun (generic) go (game) shogi
- moving first, person with the first move
- forestalling, (seizing the) initiative
- sente, move that forces a response from the opponent, allowing the player to retain the initiative
popular noun noun (generic) adverb
- 1000 ri, (a) long distance
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- death in battle, killed in action