List: interjection (kandoushi)
Spoken or written expressions of emotion.
popular interjection
- oh!, ah!, oh dear!, good grief!, dear me!, thank God!
popular interjection
- welcome
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection honorific language noun noun (generic)
- I'm sorry, my apologies, excuse me, pardon me
- may I come in?
- permission, leave, license
- dismissal, discharge
- not wanting, objecting to, being fed up with, wishing to avoid
popular irregular reading search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone interjection
- hello, good day, good afternoon
popular irregular reading JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection
- good evening
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection
- farewell, adieu, goodbye, so long
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone polite language expression interjection
- excuse me, pardon me, I'm sorry, I beg your pardon
- thank you, you shouldn't have, it's too much
popular irregular okurigana rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) interjection
- for a moment, for a minute
- for a while, for some time
- for the time being, for now
- it's been a long time, long time no see
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone interjection noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic rare term adverb
- by no means, never!, well, I never!, you don't say!, certainly (not)
- something unexpected, emergency
- currently, for the time being, presently, for now
- indeed, really, truly, unexpectedly
popular JLPT N3 adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone interjection
- really, truly, entirely, completely, wholly, perfectly
- indeed
- good grief