List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- bringing, taking, carrying
popular noun noun (generic)
- hourly pay, hourly wage
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to follow, to come after, to come next (to), to rank next (to), to rank second (to)
popular JLPT N3 suffix noun noun (generic)
- depending on
- as soon as, immediately after, upon
- as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes"), whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand")
- order, program, programme, precedence
- circumstances, course of events, state of things
- reason
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- snake
- serpent, large snake
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial usually written using kana alone intransitive verb linguistics
- to receive, to get
- to catch (e.g. a ball)
- to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
- to sustain (damage), to incur (a loss), to suffer (an injury), to feel (influence)
- to undergo (e.g. surgery), to take (a test), to accept (a challenge)
- to be given (e.g. life, talent)
- to find funny, to find humorous, to be amused (by)
- to follow, to succeed, to be descended from
- to face (south, etc.)
- to be modified by
- to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee
- to be well-received, to become popular, to go down well
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- (telephone) receiver
popular noun noun (generic)
- surroundings, circumference
popular noun noun (generic)
- initial salary
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) sumo
- partition, division, boundary, compartment
- settlement of accounts
- preliminary warm-up ritual, toeing the mark
- directing, controlling, managing, taking responsibility for