List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- flower, flowering plant
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to dress (oneself in), to attire oneself in, to adorn, to decorate
- to pretend, to feign, to affect, to disguise oneself as
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ
- being very busy, busyness
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- (outward) appearance
- (proper) format (e.g. of an essay), form, style
- appearances, decency, show, display
- lip-service, insincere words, glib talk
popular search-only kanji form Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to lie in wait (for), to be on the watch (for), to wait (for), to watch (for)
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation
- daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
- ham actor
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- main street, avenue, boulevard
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- fatal, lethal
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- matchmaker
- go-between, intermediary, middleman, mediator, intercessor
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family), martin
- barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- younger man involved with an older woman, boy toy