List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- married couple, husband and wife, man and wife
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- document, writing, letter, papers, notes, records, archives
- document addressed to someone
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone archaic
- face, mug
- surface
- cheek meat
- cheek, cheeks
- surrounding area
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- example, instance, illustration, case
- precedent
- custom, habit, practice, usage
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- will, desire, eagerness, interest, drive, motivation, urge, ambition
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to choose, to select
popular noun noun (generic)
- thought
- imagination, mind, heart
- desire, wish, hope, expectation
- love, affection
- feelings, emotion, sentiment, experience
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to think, to consider, to believe, to reckon
- to think (of doing), to plan (to do)
- to judge, to assess, to regard
- to imagine, to suppose, to dream
- to expect, to look forward to
- to feel, to be (in a state of mind), to desire, to want
- to care (deeply) for, to yearn for, to worry about, to love
- to recall, to remember
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N2 adverb
- at least
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic)
- mutual, reciprocal