List: Core Japanese words

Wordpopular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  abbreviation 

• university, college
• former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators)
• the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  adverb  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• other (esp. people and abstract matters)

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  expression 

• and then, after that

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  search-only kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pronoun  archaic 

• that, it
• then, that point (in time), that time
• there
• you

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pre-noun adjectival  adjective (generic)  interjection 

• that, the
• part (as in "part two")
• um ..., er ..., uh ...

Wordpopular  obsolete reading  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

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

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  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  suru verb  verb (generic)  intransitive verb  transitive verb  suffix  auxiliary verb 

• to do, to carry out, to perform
• to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into)
• to serve as, to act as, to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as
• to decide on, to choose
• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth, to cost
• to pass (of time), to elapse
• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
• to transform A to B, to make A into B, to exchange A for B
• to make use of A for B, to view A as B, to handle A as if it were B
• to feel A about B
• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
• to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  adverb 

• a little, a bit, a small amount, a few, some, slightly, somewhat
• a little while, a short time, a moment, a minute
• a little way, a short distance

Wordpopular  JLPT N4  usually written using kana alone  い adjective  adjective (generic)  colloquial  adverb 

• terrible, dreadful
• amazing (e.g. of strength), great (e.g. of skills), wonderful, terrific
• to a great extent, vast (in numbers)
• awfully, very, immensely