List: Essential

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

Wordpopular  noun  noun (generic) 

• popular person, favorite, favourite

Wordpopular  search-only kanji form  polite language  usually written using kana alone  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  noun  noun (generic) 

• familiar, well-known, regular (e.g. customer), favourite, favorite
• old acquaintance, old friend, (a) regular, regular customer

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  Ichidan verb  verb (generic)  transitive verb 

• to look at, to gaze at, to watch, to stare at
• to look out over, to get a view of, to admire (e.g. the scenery)
• to look on (from the sidelines), to stand by and watch, to observe

Wordpopular  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  intransitive verb 

• to be deeply impressed (by), to be moved (by), to admire greatly

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• interesting, fascinating, intriguing, enthralling
• amusing, funny, comical
• enjoyable, fun, entertaining, pleasant, agreeable
• good, satisfactory, favourable, desirable, encouraging

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

• counter for occurrences
• a time, an instance
• inning (baseball), round, game
• episode, chapter, instalment
• Hui (people)
• Islam

Wordpopular  gikun or jukujikun  obsolete reading  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• spider

Wordnoun  noun (generic)  rare term 

• blade, sword
• forged blade, wavy pattern on forged blades
• sharpness
• unhulled rice

Wordpopular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic) 

• edge (of a knife or sword), blade
• prong (of an electrical plug)