List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- disinfection, sterilization, sterilisation
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb computing
- inquiry, query, enquiry, referral (e.g. to a doctor or court)
- query (of a database)
popular noun noun (generic)
- new book, new publication
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- right in the middle (of), midst, height
popular noun noun (generic)
- Shinto, Shintoism
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- snow storm, blizzard
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- guess, conjecture
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- hydraulic power, water power
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to place (in position), to fix, to set (e.g. table), to lay (foundation)
- to install, to seat (someone)
- to settle (upon something), to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
- to apply (moxa)
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb slang
- to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.), to dish out, to dish up, to fill (a bowl) with
- to pile up, to heap up, to fill up, to stack up
- to administer (medicine, poison), to dose out, to prescribe
- to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
- to mark out (e.g. scale), to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
- to exaggerate, to apply heavy makeup