List: Essential

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• news, word, tidings, notice, notification, information
• omen, foreboding, premonition

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  な adjective  adjective (generic) 

• anxiety, uneasiness, worry, apprehension, fear, insecurity, suspense

Wordpopular  irregular reading  JLPT N1  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• longed-for, anxiously awaited

Wordpopular  JLPT N1  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• seductive, carnal, enchanting
• troubling, difficult, thorny, hard
• anxious, uneasy

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  expression  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• intolerable, unbearable, unendurable
• irresistible, tremendous, out of this world
• cannot help (doing), cannot but do, anxious to do, cannot get enough of

Wordpopular  JLPT N1  onomatopoeic or mimetic word  adverb  adverb taking the と particle  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  verb (generic)  noun (generic) 

• timidly, nervously, hesitantly, trembling (with fear), fearfully, anxiously

Wordpopular  JLPT N4  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun  noun (generic) 

• necessary, needed, essential, indispensable
• necessity, need, requirement

Wordpopular  search-only kanji form  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic) 

• dentist

Wordpopular  search-only kanji form  pronoun 

• we, us

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• rain
• rainy day, rainy weather
• the November suit (in hanafuda)