Category:Japanese terms by usage
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Japanese terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Japanese archaic terms: Japanese terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Japanese autological terms: Japanese terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
- Category:Japanese censored spellings: Japanese spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
- Category:Japanese childish terms: Japanese terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Japanese colloquialisms: Japanese terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Japanese dated terms: Japanese terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Japanese derogatory terms: Japanese terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Japanese dialectal terms: Japanese terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Japanese endearing terms: Japanese terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
- Category:Japanese familiar terms: Japanese terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
- Category:Japanese formal terms: Japanese terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Japanese gender-neutral terms: Japanese terms that are applicable to all people, independent of gender.
- Category:Japanese hapax legomena: Japanese terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
- Category:Japanese higher register terms: Japanese terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Japanese historical terms: Japanese terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
- Category:Japanese honorific terms: Japanese honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
- Category:Japanese humorous terms: Japanese terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Japanese informal terms: Japanese terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Japanese men's speech terms: Japanese terms and forms used in men's speech.
- Category:Japanese nonstandard terms: Japanese terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Japanese offensive terms: Japanese terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Japanese placeholder terms: Japanese terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
- Category:Japanese poetic terms: Japanese terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Japanese polite terms: Japanese polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
- Category:Japanese proscribed terms: Japanese terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
- Category:Japanese rare terms: Japanese terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Japanese royal terms: Japanese terms used only by royalty.
- Category:Japanese self-deprecatory terms: Japanese self-deprecatory terms.
- Category:Japanese short forms: Japanese terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Japanese slang: Japanese colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Japanese technical terms: Japanese terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
- Category:Japanese terms with archaic senses: Japanese terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Japanese terms with historical senses: Japanese terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Japanese terms with obsolete senses: Japanese terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Japanese terms with rare senses: Japanese rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Japanese terms with uncertain meaning: Japanese terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
- Category:Japanese terms with uncommon senses: Japanese uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Japanese trademarks: Japanese terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
- Category:Japanese vulgarities: Japanese terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
- Category:Japanese women's speech terms: Japanese terms and forms used in women's speech.
Subcategories
This category has the following 41 subcategories, out of 41 total.
A
- Japanese ancient forms (0 c, 1 e)
- Japanese autological terms (0 c, 17 e)
C
- Japanese censored spellings (0 c, 15 e)
- Japanese childish terms (0 c, 70 e)
- Japanese colloquialisms (0 c, 250 e)
D
- Japanese derogatory terms (0 c, 193 e)
- Japanese dialectal terms (0 c, 211 e)
E
- Japanese endearing terms (0 c, 12 e)
F
- Japanese familiar terms (0 c, 11 e)
- Japanese formal terms (0 c, 102 e)
G
- Japanese gender-neutral terms (0 c, 5 e)
H
- Japanese hapax legomena (0 c, 3 e)
- Japanese historical terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Japanese humorous terms (0 c, 56 e)
I
M
- Japanese men's speech terms (0 c, 34 e)
N
O
P
- Japanese placeholder terms (0 c, 5 e)
- Japanese poetic terms (0 c, 94 e)
- Japanese polite terms (0 c, 42 e)
- Japanese proscribed terms (0 c, 38 e)
R
- Japanese rare terms (0 c, 3 e)
- Japanese royal terms (0 c, 1 e)
S
- Japanese self-deprecatory terms (0 c, 6 e)
- Japanese short forms (0 c, 1257 e)
T
- Japanese technical terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Japanese terms with archaic senses (0 c, 897 e)
- Japanese terms with historical senses (0 c, 777 e)
- Japanese terms with uncertain meaning (0 c, 7 e)
- Japanese terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 264 e)
V
W
- Japanese women's speech terms (0 c, 40 e)