List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- payment, bill, account
- sweeping, clearing away
- sweeping stroke (e.g. when writing kanji)
popular adverb
- day by day
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to appear to want to have (something), to obviously want, to seem to want, to indicate a wish for
popular expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to make do with, to manage with, to make shift
- to get (something) done in time, to have ready (by)
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- reconciliation (between warring nations), (making of) peace
้ณฅๅฑ
ใจใใtoriipopular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- torii (Shinto shrine archway)
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to go to and from (a place), to go back and forth between, to run between (e.g. bus, train, etc.), to ply between
- to go to (school, work, etc.), to attend, to commute, to frequent
- to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity), to be communicated (e.g. thought)
- to resemble
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to spread (of a rumour, news, etc.), to travel, to circulate, to go around, to be passed around, to become known
- to be handed down (from generation to generation), to be passed down
- to be introduced (to a country, region, etc.), to be brought, to come
- to be conveyed (of a feeling, impression, etc.), to be felt, to come across
- to travel (of sound, electricity, etc.), to propagate, to be conducted, to be transmitted
- to go along, to move along
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- utility pole, power pole, telephone pole, telegraph pole
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial pronoun
- fellow, guy, chap
- thing, object
- he, she, him, her