List: Core Japanese words

Wordpopular  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix) 

• line, stripe, stria
• line (e.g. telephone line), wire
• ray (e.g. X-ray), beam
• line (e.g. of a railroad), track, route, lane
• outline, contours, form
• level
• division
• line (of action), position, approach, policy, principle
• impression one leaves, air one gives off

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• train, electric train

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• car, automobile, vehicle
• wheel, castor, caster

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation  sumo 

• room, chamber
• apartment, flat, pad
• stable

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• name
• given name, first name

Wordpopular  search-only kanji form  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  adverb  suffix  usually written using kana alone 

• place, spot, scene, site
• address
• district, area, locality
• one's house
• point, aspect, side, facet
• passage (in text), part
• space, room
• thing, matter
• whereupon, as a result
• about to, on the verge of
• was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing
• approximately, around, about

Wordpopular  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic)  sumo 

• place, location, spot, position
• room, space
• basho, wrestling tournament

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  abbreviation  noun  noun (generic) 

• subway, metro, underground (railway)

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  adverb  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  archaic 

• inside, interior
• among, within
• middle, center, centre
• during, while, middle, midst, amid
• interval, gap
• mean, average
• second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes), middle
• medium grade, medium quality
• red-light district

Wordpopular  obsolete reading  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• outside, exterior
• the open (air)
• other place, somewhere else, outside one's group (family, company, etc.)