popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- thing, matter
- incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
- circumstances, situation, state of affairs
- work, business, affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ..., playing make-believe ...
- alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or
- necessity, need
- you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- drawing, picture, diagram, figure, illustration, chart, graph, map
- sight, scene
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- ear (of a cereal plant), head, spike
- point (of a brush, spear, etc.), tip, (pointed) head
- crest (of a wave)
- scion (in grafting)
popular obsolete kanji shogi noun noun (generic)
- king (of the senior player)
- ลshล (one of the eight major titles in professional shogi)
popular obsolete reading obsolete kanji noun noun (generic)
- height, stature
- length (esp. of clothing)
- all (one has), everything
- magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)
popular obsolete kanji irregular okurigana JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb
- good, advantage, benefit, welfare
- sake, purpose, objective, aim
- consequence, result, effect
- affecting, regarding, concerning
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 numeric noun noun (generic)
- five
- five years of age
- eight o'clock (old time system)
popular obsolete kanji noun noun (generic)
- party, banquet, feast
popular obsolete reading obsolete kanji numeric historical term noun noun (generic)
- one-hundredth, 0.3 mm (one-hundredth of a sun), 0.1 percent (one-hundredth of a wari), 0.0375 grams (one-hundredth of a monme)
- rin (monetary unit; 0.001 yen)
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- study, scholarship, learning, education, knowledge
- discipline, branch of learning, (a) science