List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- water tank, cistern
- fish tank, aquarium
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- decline, degeneration, decay, waning, ebbing
popular noun noun (generic)
- end of a century (esp. 19th), fin-de-siรจcle
- end of the world (esp. in fiction), apocalypse
popular JLPT N1 suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hold back (e.g. emotions), to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people), to bridle
- to get the better of
- to control, to command
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- normalization, normalisation
popular noun noun (generic) go (game) usually written using kana alone prefix
- living, being alive
- freshness, liveliness, vitality
- situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps
- stet (proofreading), leave as-is
- damned
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- refining, purification
- careful manufacture
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- sacred precincts, sanctuary, consecrated ground, holy ground
- issue that is regarded as being off-limits, matter that is not up for discussion
popular noun noun (generic)
- taxation law
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- stone wall