List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- fortune-telling, divination
- fortune-teller, diviner
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 abbreviation Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- dhyana (profound meditation)
- Zen (Buddhism)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- increase and decrease, fluctuation
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- hatred, abhorrence, loathing, detestation
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- stepping (in place), stamping (up and down), stomping, marking time (for a soldier)
- standstill, stalemate
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- respect, esteem, reverence, honour, honor
popular JLPT N2 grammar noun noun (generic)
- pronoun
- synonym, classic example, pattern, byword, representative
popular noun noun (generic)
- heavy snow, heavy snowfall
- "major snow" solar term (approx. Dec. 7)
popular noun noun (generic)
- grief, lamentation
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) archaic
- platform, podium, rostrum, pulpit
- (ceremonial) mound
- world (of haiku, art, etc.), (literary) circles
- mandala