List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- envoy, diplomat below the rank of ambassador (e.g. deputy chief of mission, charge d'affaires), minister (of legation)
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone transitive verb archaic
- to mind, to care about, to be concerned about, to have a regard for
- to be an issue, to matter, to create inconvenience
- to keep company, to care for, to look after, to entertain, to pay attention to, to spend time with
- to interfere with, to meddle in
- to tease
- to banish, to prohibit
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to mince, to cut fine, to chop up, to hash, to shred
- to carve, to engrave, to chisel, to notch
- to tick away (time), to beat out (e.g. rhythm), to record the passing moments
- to etch (into one's mind), to remember distinctly
- to have tattooed
- to torment
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- meeting again, reunion
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- smallest (in size, degree, etc.), least, minimum, minimal
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- work, workmanship, craftsmanship, handiwork
- artifice, trick, device, tampering, doctoring
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- cruel, brutal, ruthless, merciless, inhuman
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- sign, symbol, mark
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to doubt, to distrust, to be suspicious of, to suspect
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- duty, sense of duty, honor, honour, decency, courtesy, debt of gratitude, social obligation
- in-law, relation by marriage