List: godan verb (archaic)
All kinds of godan verbs (archaic)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to dry up, to parch, to ebb away
popular irregular kanji usage godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to dig up, to turn up, to tear up
- to rake up (e.g. old scandal), to dig over
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb historical term
- to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.), to cull
- to run on a curtailed schedule, to cut down, to reduce
- to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it), to survive a fire
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to consign to oblivion
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to step aside, to move (i.e. out of the way), to make way
- to resign, to retire, to quit, to secede
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb suffix
- to enter, to go in, to get in, to come in
- to set (of the sun or moon), to sink, to go down
- to attain (nirvana, enlightenment, etc.), to achieve, to reach (e.g. a climax)
- to do fully, to do intently, to do sincerely, to do deeply, to feel keenly
- to (reach a state) completely
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to wet, to moisten, to dampen, to soak, to dip
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb dated term
- to twist, to wrench, to turn (a tap, switch, etc.)
- to twist (a body part), to bend, to sprain
- to strangle (to death), to wring (an animal's neck)
- to defeat easily, to beat
- to make (a problem, design, etc.) intricate, to make peculiar, to make complicated
- to manage to compose (a haiku, song, etc.)
- to wrap (a monetary gift) in paper
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb archaic
- to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.)
- to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
- to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
- to sneak a look at, to take a quick look at
- to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)
- to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.), to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)
- to examine (an expression), to study (a face)
- to face