popular  honorific language  noun  noun (generic)  familiar language 

• older brother, elder brother
• brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship)
• young man, buddy, fella, laddie

popular  gikun or jukujikun  rarely used kanji form  usually written using kana alone  familiar language  noun  noun (generic)  Hokkaido-ben 

• one's father, one's old man, dad, pops
• middle-aged (or older) man, old man, geezer
• one's boss
• proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.), landlord
• grizzly bear

popular  obsolete kanji  noun  noun (generic)  familiar language  derogatory  fishing  hanafuda 

• Buddhist priest, bonze
• close-cropped hair, crew cut, person with a shorn head
• boy, sonny, lad
• not catching anything
• the August 20-point card

popular  JLPT N2  familiar language  noun  noun (generic)  derogatory 

• boy, son, child
• mere boy, stripling, greenhorn

popular  irregular okurigana  noun  noun (generic)  archaic  pronoun  familiar language 

• myself, oneself
• I, me
• you (referring to one's inferior)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  familiar language  jocular, humorous term  pronoun 

• boyfriend
• he, him

gairaigo  Sanskrit origin  popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  familiar language  Buddhism 

• master (of a house, shop, etc.)
• husband
• sir, boss, master, governor
• patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess, sugar daddy
• alms, almsgiving, almsgiver

popular  search-only kanji form  JLPT N5  familiar language  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• police officer

popular  search-only kana form  search-only kanji form  JLPT N3  humble language  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  familiar language  female term  usually written using kana alone  expression 

• receiving, getting, accepting, being given
• eating, drinking, having
• please (give me; do for me)

popular  familiar language  noun  noun (generic)  colloquial 

• dad, daddy, papa
• sugar daddy