List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
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
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- princess
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- degree, extent, amount, balance, state, condition
- (health) condition, state of health
- adjustment, moderation, regulation
- addition and subtraction
- slight sign of ..., slight state of ...
- just right for ...
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- landlord, landlady
- house owner, home owner, head of the household
popular obsolete reading JLPT N4 humble language noun noun (generic)
- (my) wife
- inside the home, one's family
popular noun noun (generic)
- end, verge, extremity, tip, outskirts
- miss, failure, blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
popular noun noun (generic)
- foreign-made car, imported car
- paddle wheel
popular noun noun (generic)
- harmful insect, noxious insect, pest, vermin