List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- (Japanese-style) living room
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb law
- starting work (on), setting to work (on), setting about (doing), beginning, commencing, embarking on
- commencing (a crime)
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) adverb
- lunch break, noon recess, noon rest period
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- Japanese clothes
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to threaten, to menace, to intimidate
- to startle, to frighten, to scare
popular rarely used kana form noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- gold (colour, color)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- duplication, repetition, overlapping, redundancy, restoration
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- (public) notice, attention, public eye, public gaze
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- kite
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to pour (into)
- to sprinkle on (from above), to water (e.g. plants), to pour onto, to spray
- to shed (tears)
- to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on, to devote to, to fix (one's eyes) on
- to flow into (e.g. of a river), to run into, to drain into
- to fall (of rain, snow), to pour down