List: Essential

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  sumo 

• water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water)
• fluid (esp. in an animal tissue), liquid
• flood, floodwaters
• water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
• break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  colloquial  noun (suffix)  counter 

• hand, arm
• forepaw, foreleg
• handle
• hand, worker, help
• trouble, care, effort
• means, way, trick, move, technique, workmanship
• hand, handwriting
• kind, type, sort
• one's hands, one's possession
• ability to cope
• hand (of cards)
• direction
• move (in go, shogi, etc.)

Wordpopular  counter 

• counter for birds or rabbits

Wordnoun  noun (generic)  logic  grammar 

• compound word, phrase, collocation
• copula

Wordpopular  obsolete reading  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic) 

• condition, state
• health, state (of health)
• way, manner
• circumstance, luck
• face, dignity, decency, propriety

Wordpopular  familiar language  particle 

• yes?, no?, isn't it?, is it?

Wordpopular  JLPT N4  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard, reason, cause, meaning, circumstances, situation

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  adverb 

• so, like this, in this way, this much, to this extent

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  adverb  interjection 

• how, in what way, by what means
• why, for what reason, for what purpose, what for
• cannot possibly
• no way

Wordpopular  irregular reading  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic) 

• reason, pretext, motive