popular noun noun (generic) colloquial
- running
- gliding
- first (harvest) of the season
- beginning, start
- kitchen sink
popular irregular kanji usage ใช adjective adjective (generic) colloquial
- dramatic, exciting, touching
- extreme
popular historical term noun noun (generic) colloquial
- zaibatsu, financial conglomerate, industrial group
- rich person
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) colloquial
- believer, adherent, devotee, follower
- fanboy, fanatic, superfan
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb suffix colloquial
- to end, to come to an end, to finish, to close, to be over
- to finish, to complete, to conclude
- to finish doing
- to be past its (one's) prime
- to be awful, to be terrible, to suck, to be hopeless
popular noun noun (generic) sports colloquial
- one army, whole army
- first string players
- the cool kids, the popular kids
popular colloquial abbreviation noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- having graduated from high school (as one's highest completed level of education), high school graduate
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) colloquial usually written using kana alone food, cooking prefix
- legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses), bean, pea
- soya bean (Glycine max), soybean, soy
- female genitalia (esp. the clitoris)
- kidney
- small, miniature, baby, midget, small-scale
- child
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) colloquial noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- spare time, free time, leisure
- time (it takes to do something), time required
- time off, leave, vacation, holiday
- dismissal, firing, severance, divorce
- free, not busy, unoccupied, idle
- slow (business), slack, dull
- to be free, to be not busy, to be available, to be doing nothing
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) colloquial
- plan, idea, design, plot
- taste, liking, preference