List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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
popular noun noun (generic)
- year-end gift
- end of the year, year end
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- operation, functioning, running
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- being actual (as opposed to hidden or latent), being apparent, being obvious, being tangible, being revealed
popular irregular kanji usage noun noun (generic)
- (field) marshal, (fleet) admiral, general of the army
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- place of origin, habitat
popular noun noun (generic)
- source (e.g. of a river), headwaters
- origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
popular noun noun (generic) obsolete term
- the Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac)
- hour of the Horse (around noon, 11am-1pm, or 12 noon-2pm)
- south
- fifth month of the lunar calendar