List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- guest room (at a hotel), guest cabin (on a boat), passenger cabin (on a plane)
- drawing room
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- bow (weapon)
- archery
- bow (for a violin, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- help, rescue, aid, relief
- salvation, solace, (source of) comfort, saving grace
- (religious) salvation, (Christian) grace
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- permission, allowance, acceptance, tolerance, pardon
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- fisherman
popular irregular okurigana usually written using kana alone adverb numeric
- quite, very
- 10^48, quindecillion
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- service, duty, business, responsibility, task
- Buddhist religious services
popular astronomy noun noun (generic)
- Milky Way
- galaxy
popular noun noun (generic)
- ward office, council (regional)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adverb philosophy
- coincidence, chance, accident, fortuity
- by chance, unexpectedly, accidentally
- contingency