List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic)
- healthy, robust, strong, solid, durable
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- pure white
- blank (e.g. mind, paper)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- all-purpose, utility, universal
- all-powerful, almighty, omnipotent, all-round (e.g. athlete)
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) adverb な adjective colloquial noun (suffix)
- remainder, remnant, rest, balance, surplus, remains (of a meal), leftovers
- (not) very, (not) much
- too much, excessively, overly
- extreme, great, severe, tremendous, terrible
- not very good, so-so, mediocre
- more than, over
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) dated term
- light, glow, gleam
- (a) light, lights, lamp
- proof (of innocence)
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb
- excuse
- explanation
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to sing
- to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to fear, to be afraid of
popular noun noun (generic)
- buyer
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- futon (laid on the floor), (Japanese) mattress, underquilt, sleeping mat