popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) biology counter
- gate
- branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master
- division, phylum
- counter for cannons
popular noun noun (generic) mathematics baseball counter
- sphere, globe, ball, bulb
- ball, sphere
- counter for pitches
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popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) counter
- clothes (esp. Western clothes), clothing, dress, costume, suit, outfit
- counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
popular JLPT N1 counter archaic noun noun (generic)
- counter for small animals
- counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size)
- counter for horses
- roll of cloth
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popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) counter
- ship, boat, watercraft, vessel, seaplane
- tank, tub, vat, trough
- counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
popular counter
- counter for birds or rabbits
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter sumo
- curtain
- act (in a play)
- falling of the curtain, end (of a scene)
- end, close
- case, occasion, role (to play), part, place
- makuuchi, top division
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popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) historical term counter
- railway station, train station
- staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan)
- counter for railway stations and bus stations
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter
- origin, source, beginning
- basis, base, foundation, root
- cause
- (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock
- (one's) side
- capital, principal, cost price
- root (of a plant), (tree) trunk
- part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand)
- first three lines of a waka
- counter for plants or trees
- counter for falcons (in falconry)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter
- variety, kind, type, category
- counter for kinds, species, etc.