List: noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
popular noun (suffix) noun (generic) zoology noun chemistry
- tribe, race, people, family
- group (of people who share a common feature), gang, lot, bunch
- tribe (taxonomic rank)
- group (in the periodic table)
popular noun noun (generic)
- village headman, village mayor
popular irregular kanji usage noun noun (generic)
- fetus, foetus, embryo, baby in the womb, unborn baby
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- rise (e.g. of a movement), emergence, rearing one's head, gaining prominence, coming to the fore, gaining power, gathering strength
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- script, libretto, scenario
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- hawk, falcon
popular noun noun (generic) adverb
- short time
popular noun noun (generic)
- ransom demand
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- tension, strain
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) linguistics computing
- section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph
- phrase
- verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
- haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
- maxim, saying, idiom, expression
- clause (e.g. in a database query language)