List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb finance biology
- transfer (trains, buses, etc.), change, connection
- switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.), change, conversion
- switching (stock)
- chromosomal crossover, crossing over
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- everyday clothes, ordinary clothes, casual wear, informal dress
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to save, to rescue, to spare
- to help, to assist
- to support (financially), to contribute (to), to provide aid
- to facilitate, to stimulate, to promote, to contribute to
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- tokonoma (alcove where art or flowers are displayed)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- buttocks, behind, rump, bottom, hips
- undersurface, bottom
- last place, end
- consequence
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to know, to understand, to be aware of, to regard as, to take for
- to (understand and) accept (a responsibility)
- to have a knowledge of (a skill, art, etc.), to have a command of, to know (how to do)
popular noun noun (generic)
- truth or falsehood, genuineness, authenticity, veracity
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- mystery, mysteriousness, secret
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- edge (of a knife or sword), blade
- prong (of an electrical plug)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- figure, shape, graphic