List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 adverb
- originally, essentially, naturally, by nature, really, actually
- in the first place, to begin with
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- origin, beginning, genesis
- primeval, primordial, primitive
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- severe, strict, rigid, unsparing, relentless
- hard (to do), difficult, tricky
- intense (e.g. cold), harsh (weather), inclement
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) physics noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- police box, koban, small neighborhood police station
- alternation
- alternating (current, stress, etc.)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- the public, general public
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- quarrel, argument, row, (verbal) dispute
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb conjunction
- furthermore, again, after all, more and more, moreover, even more
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- black
- dark, blackish, sun-tanned (skin)
- suspicious, criminal, illicit
- darkened and dirty, sooty, covered in dirt
- evil, wicked, black-hearted
- inauspicious, ill-boding, unlucky
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) adverb
- this evening, tonight
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- willpower, guts, determination, grit, spirit
- character, nature, disposition, personality