List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- near, close, short (distance)
- close (in time), soon
- close (relationship), friendly, intimate
- closely related
- similar, almost the same, close to, nearly
popular noun noun (generic)
- karate
- being empty-handed, having nothing in one's hands
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- military expansion, arms buildup
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- offering a prize, prize competition, prize, reward
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- sample, specimen, pattern
- model, example
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- dangerous, perilous, threatening, stormy, volatile, tense, critical, serious
- stern (expression), hostile (attitude), sharp, harsh
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to run (a business), to operate, to conduct, to practice (law, medicine, etc.)
- to carry out, to perform, to lead (a life)
- to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to swim
- to struggle through (a crowd)
- to make one's way through the world, to get along (in life)
- to totter, to lose one's balance
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- arrears, (being) overdue, delay (e.g. in payment), procrastination
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) abbreviation Buddhism
- omen, sign of luck
- origin, history, causation
- dependent arising, doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing