List: Essential

Wordpopular  formal or literary term  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• last year

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  Buddhism 

• consciousness
• becoming aware (of), awareness, sense
• mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  finance 

• emphasis, stress, highlighting, underlining, underscoring
• accentuating (a feature or certain part), accenting
• strong tone (of the market), firm tone

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb 

• practice, training, drill, (an) exercise, workout

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  usually written using kana alone  noun (suffix)  prefix 

• thing, object, article, stuff, substance
• one's things, possessions, property, belongings
• things, something, anything, everything, nothing
• quality
• reason, the way of things
• used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen
• item classified as ..., item related to ..., work in the genre of ...
• cause of ..., cause for ...
• somehow, somewhat, for some reason
• really, truly

Wordpopular  gikun or jukujikun  obsolete reading  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• another person, other people, others
• unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood)
• outsider, stranger

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• boy
• juvenile, child

Wordpopular  irregular okurigana  JLPT N5  numeric  noun  noun (generic)  adverb  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• one
• for one thing
• only
• (not) even
• just (e.g. "just try it")
• some kind of, one type of

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• medicine, pharmaceuticals, (legal) drugs, pill, ointment, salve
• efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.)
• (pottery) glaze
• (illegal) drug, narcotic
• small bribe

Wordpopular  irregular okurigana  JLPT N5  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• short
• brief