popular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  linguistics 

• voice
• singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot
• voice, opinion (as expressed in words), view, wish, attitude, will
• sound
• sense (of something's arrival), feeling
• voice, voiced sound

popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  linguistics 

• rebuilding, reconstruction, rehabilitation
• protoform reconstruction

popular  JLPT N3  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation  linguistics 

• automatic
• intransitive verb

popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  linguistics 

• form, shape, figure
• morph

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  linguistics 

• work, labor, labour
• achievement, performance, ability, talent
• salary, income, earnings
• action, activity, workings, function, operation, movement, motion
• conjugation, inflection

popular  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb  linguistics 

• talk, conversation, dialogue
• informal expression of opinion, off-the-cuff remarks, comment
• discourse

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  linguistics 

• charge, duty, person in charge, official, clerk
• connection, linking

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  linguistics  computing 

• section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph
• phrase
• verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
• haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
• maxim, saying, idiom, expression
• clause (e.g. in a database query language)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  linguistics 

• first words said (e.g. when meeting someone), first thing out of one's mouth
• first speech, inaugural address
• first tone (in Chinese), level tone

popular  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic)  linguistics 

• sign, mark, marker, beacon
• marker