List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- ruler, measure
popular noun noun (generic)
- humanities, liberal arts, social science
- literary course, department of literature
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- context (of a passage), line of thought
- context (of a matter, event, etc.), circumstances, background
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- closing up shop (for the day)
- stopping business, going out of business
popular noun noun (generic)
- different thing, another question, different case
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ mathematics
- change, conversion, transformation
- transformation
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) adverb usually written using kana alone
- (in the) neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby, surroundings
- around, about, or thereabouts
- for instance, say, such as
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to return (something), to restore, to put back
- to turn over, to turn upside down, to overturn
- to pay back, to retaliate, to reciprocate
- to respond (with), to retort, to reply, to say back
- to do ... back (e.g. speak back, throw back)
- to do again, to do repeatedly
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- reply, answer
popular noun noun (generic)
- guarantor, surety, sponsor, reference, bondsman