List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- generation, lifetime, age
popular astronomy noun noun (generic)
- (outer) space
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- vortex, maelstrom, whirlpool
- (in the middle of a) scandal, controversy, quarrel, turmoil
popular noun noun (generic)
- regiment
popular noun noun (generic)
- labour movement, labor movement
popular noun noun (generic)
- bowstring
- string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.)
- bail (arched pot handle)
- diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu
popular noun noun (generic)
- human nature, human heart, human spirit, kindness, sympathy
- public feeling, people's sentiments
- consciousness, awareness
popular noun noun (generic)
- humanity, civilization, civilisation, culture
popular noun noun (generic)
- waterfowl, water bird, shorebird
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation Buddhism martial arts
- western direction
- Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise)
- western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)