List: noun, used as a suffix
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) noun (suffix)
- tuck (e.g. in a dress)
- rise (e.g. in price)
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone
- riding, ride
- spread (of paints)
- -seater (e.g. two-seater)
- (getting into the) mood, (entering into the) spirit, energy, enthusiasm, rhythm, feeling
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family, imperial Shinto shrine
- Ise Grand Shrine
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) prefix archaic Kyoto-ben
- young lady of noble birth, princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)
- girl
- small, cute, lesser (in names of species)
- prostitute
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) counter
- lesson
- section (in an organization), division, department
- counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) counter
- storey, story, floor
- stairs
- stage (in chronostratigraphy)
- counter for storeys and floors of a building
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- thing, matter
- incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
- circumstances, situation, state of affairs
- work, business, affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ..., playing make-believe ...
- alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or
- necessity, need
- you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone abbreviation suffix
- rise, increase, ascent
- income, takings, earnings, proceeds, (crop) yield, return, profit
- completion, end, finish
- end result (e.g. of crafts), how something comes out, finish
- finishing (in a board or card game, etc.)
- green tea (esp. in a sushi restaurant)
- after (rain, illness, etc.)
- ex- (e.g. ex-bureaucrat), former
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter noun (suffix)
- needle, pin
- hook
- stinger, thorn
- hand (e.g. clock, etc.), pointer
- staple (for a stapler)
- needlework, sewing
- malice
- counter for stitches