List: Core Japanese words

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• one's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix) 

• week

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• time
• hour
• period, class, lesson

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

• however, but

Wordpopular  gikun or jukujikun  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• today, this day
• these days, recently, nowadays

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  irregular okurigana  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pronoun  dated term  formal or literary term  adverb  archaic 

• this, this one
• this person
• now, this point (in time)
• here
• used to stress the subject of a sentence
• I, me

Wordpopular  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 ...

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  counter 

• word
• language
• speech

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

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

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

• country, state
• region
• national government, central government
• home (i.e. hometown, home country)
• province (of Japan)
• land, earth