List: formal or literary term
popular formal or literary term noun noun (generic) adverb
- last year
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb formal or literary term
- contacting, (making) contact, getting in touch, communication, correspondence, call, message
- connection (with a train, bus, etc.), joining (a railway line, etc.), meeting
- connection (between matters, incidents, etc.), relation, link
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb conjunction formal or literary term
- still, yet
- more, still more, greater, further
- furthermore, in addition, moreover, note that ...
- as if, just like, as though
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) formal or literary term
- weather (conditions)
- disposition, temperament
popular formal or literary term noun noun (generic)
- rule, government, administration
popular JLPT N1 formal or literary term noun noun (generic) poetical term
- letter, note, mail
- book, writings
- literary arts, learning, scholarship
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 formal or literary term noun noun (generic) mathematics computing
- price, cost
- value, worth, merit
- value
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) formal or literary term
- having, holding, possessing, owning, using, holder, owner, user
- wear, durability, life
- charge, expense
- draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.), tie
popular noun noun (generic) formal or literary term
- main section (of a newspaper), central column
- this newspaper, our paper
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter formal or literary term
- step, stair, rung, (flight of) steps
- shelf, layer, tier
- grade, level, class
- dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.), rank
- paragraph, passage
- column (of print)
- act (in kabuki, joruri, etc.), section, scene
- row of the multiplication table (e.g. five times table)
- stage (in a process), phase, occasion, time, moment, situation
- matter, occasion
- degree, extent
- counter for breaks in written language or speech