popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to visit and comfort or console, to go to see (e.g. someone in hospital), to ask after (e.g. someone's health), to inquire after
- to attack, to hit, to strike, to deal (a punch)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to rise, to swell, to be promoted
popular irregular reading JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to come together, to merge, to unite, to meet
- to fit, to match, to suit, to agree with, to be correct
- to be profitable, to be equitable
- to do ... to each other, to do ... together
popular ateji JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pay
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to hold (in one's hand), to take, to carry
- to possess, to have, to own
- to maintain, to keep
- to last, to be durable, to keep, to survive
- to take charge of, to be in charge of
- to hold (meeting, etc.), to have (opportunity, etc.)
- to have "it", to have that special something, to be blessed with good luck
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sell
- to betray, to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.)
- to make (oneself) known, to establish (a reputation) for oneself
- to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.), to provoke, to force on someone
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial interjection
- to request, to beg, to ask
- to call, to order, to reserve
- to entrust to
- to rely on
- please, please do
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb baseball suffix
- to drain, to pour, to run, to let flow, to flush, to shed (blood, tears), to spill
- to float (e.g. logs down a river), to set adrift
- to wash away, to carry away, to sweep away
- to broadcast, to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker), to send (electricity through a wire)
- to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.), to spread, to distribute
- to cruise (of a taxi), to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.), to go from place to place
- to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.), to call off, to reject (e.g. a bill)
- to forfeit (a pawn)
- to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming), to do with ease, to do effortlessly
- to exile, to banish
- to hit (the ball) to the opposite field
- to do inattentively, to do without concentrating, to put little effort into doing
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to anticipate, to expect, to estimate, to count on, to allow for, to take into account
- to place confidence in, to put trust in, to trust
- to find promising, to see good prospects (in)
- to set one's eye on (e.g. prey), to mark (e.g. as a victim), to hold spellbound
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to follow in succession, to happen one after another