List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- newcomer, new figure, new member, recruit, rookie, new talent, new star
- modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards), Homo sapiens
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- forest
- shrine grove
popular JLPT N3 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- serious, severe, grave, acute
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) card games mahjong noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- parent, parents, mother and father
- dealer, banker
- founder, inventor
- (pet) owner
- key, parent (organization), main
- ancestor, forefather
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- one's body, one's person
- oneself, one's appearance
- one's place (in society, etc.), one's position
- main part, meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.), wood (as opposed to bark), blade (as opposed to its handle), container (as opposed to its lid)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb sports
- advance (into a new market, industry, etc.), expansion (into), launch (into), entering, making inroads (into)
- advance (to the next round of a competition)
popular noun noun (generic)
- human rights, civil liberties
popular noun noun (generic) art, aesthetics
- human affairs, mundane matters, things human
- personnel affairs, human resources, employee matters, HR
- human power, human effort, what is humanly possible
- category of haiku seasonal words relating to human affairs
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- (one's) life
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- person, character, figure, personage, man, woman
- one's character, one's personality
- able person, talented person