List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation
- heavenly god, heavenly gods
- spirit of Sugawara no Michizane
- Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit)
- pit of a dried plum, dried plum
- tenjin hairstyle
- prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)
- tuning peg (on a biwa or shamisen)
popular noun noun (generic)
- island country
popular noun noun (generic) archaic
- inland sea, inlet, gulf, bay
- lake
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- unofficial announcement
popular noun noun (generic)
- installment, instalment, premium, bill
popular noun noun (generic)
- cost price
popular noun noun (generic)
- illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.), picture
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- omen, portent, sign, presage, harbinger, premonition, precursor, foreboding, presentiment
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) sumo
- prop, strut, support, brace, bar
- becoming taut, tightness, stiffness, cramp
- thrust, slapping attacks
- (juvenile) delinquency, (juvenile) delinquent, punk
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- jump, plunge, dive
- appearing without an appointment, bursting in, arriving unannounced, cropping up suddenly