List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- infrared rays, infrared radiation
popular noun noun (generic)
- moderation, standard
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- generation, lifetime
- the age, the day
- the first (e.g. Elizabeth I)
- issei, first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic) honorific language suffix
- old man, venerable gentleman
- venerable, old, father
popular noun noun (generic)
- deadlock, stalemate, impasse, dead end
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- rented house, house for rent
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- palm (of the hand)
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- password, watchword
- motto, slogan
popular noun noun (generic)
- variant (in a manuscript or book), part of a text that differs from other versions
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to catch up (with), to draw level, to pull even, to reach
- to be compensated, to make up for one's losses