List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- bush clover, Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)
- dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn)
- Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- fermentation, zymosis
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb archaic
- origin
- appearance of an auspicious sign that one will receive a divine mandate to becoming emperor
- birth of an emperor or his ancestors
popular noun noun (generic)
- sail
popular noun noun (generic)
- manure, night soil, dung, fertiliser, fertilizer
popular noun noun (generic)
- pilot
popular noun noun (generic)
- (mountain) ridge
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- microscopic
popular noun noun (generic)
- slight earthquake
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- certain victory