List: noun (generic)
All kinds of Japanese nouns
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- first departure (of the day), first train, first bus
- departing from the starting station (of a bus, train, etc.)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- gear, cogwheel
- cog (in an organization, company, etc.), cog in the machine
popular JLPT N1 historical term noun noun (generic) colloquial
- warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai
- person with a strong backbone, person that does incredible things, person of considerable talent
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- (street) corner, turn (in the road), bend
- turning point, watershed
popular noun noun (generic) historical term
- recent past, recent times
- early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan)
栗くりkuripopular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- menu, bill of fare
- program, programme, schedule
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- key
- lock
- key (to a problem, success, etc.), clue
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- origin, beginning, genesis
- primeval, primordial, primitive
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- small bird, little bird