Category:Japanese terms by usage

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.