List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- uncle
popular noun noun (generic)
- singing voice, (sound of) singing
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- dry taste (e.g. sake, wine)
- a liking for sake, one who likes sake
- salty (taste)
- harsh, scathing
popular noun noun (generic)
- intimacy, affection, familiarity
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- cape (on coast)
popular noun noun (generic)
- territorial airspace
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- contact, connectedness, rapport, mutual touching
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic) colloquial
- painful, sore
- cringy, embarrassing
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- severe, bitter, scathing
popular noun noun (generic)
- household head, master, host (e.g. of a tea gathering), innkeeper, owner (e.g. of a hotel)
- husband