List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
栗くりkuripopular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- formal
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- menu, bill of fare
- program, programme, schedule
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb go (game)
- (formal) meeting with a view to marriage, interview with a prospective spouse
- correspondence, balance
- miai, two different options such that if one player takes one, the other player can take the other
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- key
- lock
- key (to a problem, success, etc.), clue
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to drag, to trail, to pull along the ground, to lug
- to force (someone) along, to drag (along)
- to prolong, to drag out
- to influence, to persuade, to entice, to lure
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to move (house), to change residence
popular noun noun (generic)
- (train) station attendant, station employee, station staff
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- favour, favor, obligation, debt of gratitude
popular JLPT N3 honorific language usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to give, to confer, to bestow
- to kindly do for one, to oblige, to favour, to favor