List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- bet, wager, stake, gamble
popular JLPT N4 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- scary, frightening, eerie, dreadful
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb
- to rely on, to depend on, to count on, to turn to (for help)
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to meet (by chance), to come across, to run across, to encounter, to happen upon
- to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.)
- to emerge and engage (an enemy)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- vehicle, conveyance, (means of) transport
- ride (at a fair, amusement park, etc.)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 interjection noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- banzai, hurray, hurrah, hooray
- something to cheer about, something worthy of celebration
- giving up, throwing one's hands up
- eternal life and prosperity
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb baseball
- to pull, to draw, to pull tight
- to string (lines), to run (cable), to stretch
- to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve)
- to drag, to haul, to tow
- to lead (e.g. one's followers)
- to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police)
- to tempt into joining, to strongly invite to join
- to delay, to prolong
- to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word)
- to quote, to cite, to reference
- to pull the ball
- to wear, to put on
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun (suffix) computing
- arranging, ordering, sequencing, lining up, laying out
- sequence (e.g. DNA sequence), arrangement, alignment, layout (e.g. keyboard layout)
- array
็ฎธใฏใhashipopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- chopsticks
้ซชใฎๆฏใใฟใฎใkaminokepopular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 expression noun noun (generic)
- hair (on the head), (a) hair