List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- hometown, birthplace
popular noun noun (generic)
- bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- notice, bulletin, post, posting, placard
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- meeting, greeting, welcome
- person sent to meet a visitor
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- whale (Cetacea spp.)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) jocular, humorous term dated term な adjective adjective (generic)
- masterpiece, masterwork, chef d'oeuvre, fine piece of work
- (unintentionally) hilarious, absurd (e.g. blunder), outrageous, wild
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- crystal, crystallization, crystallisation
- fruits (of labor, union, etc.)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- monthly salary
popular JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- modest, humble
popular JLPT N1 physics chemistry noun noun (generic)
- atom