List: noun, used as a prefix

popular  historical term  derogatory  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix)  abbreviation  food, cooking 

• southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south)
• South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods)
• Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods)
• foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe), exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style)
• chili pepper
• nanban, dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions
• thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• one's age at death

popular  ateji  rarely used kanji form  search-only kanji form  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic)  な adjective  adjective (generic)  slang  noun (prefix)  noun (suffix)  abbreviation 

• idiot, moron, fool
• stupid, foolish, dull, absurd, ridiculous
• trivial, insignificant, disappointing
• malfunctioning, defective, losing sensation
• incredibly, unusually, exceptionally
• fervent enthusiast, nut, person singularly obsessed with something
• Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• special quality, class or grade

popular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• below, down, under, younger (e.g. daughter)
• bottom
• beneath, underneath
• just after, right after
• inferiority, one's inferior (i.e. one's junior)
• trade-in
• preliminary, preparatory

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix)  slang  Kansai-ben  suffix 

• circle
• entirety, whole, full, complete
• money, dough, moola
• enclosure inside a castle's walls
• soft-shelled turtle
• suffix for ship names, suffix for names of people (esp. infants), suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc., suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.

popular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• sky, the air, the heavens
• weather
• far-off place, distant place
• state of mind, feeling
• (from) memory, (by) heart
• falsehood, lie
• somehow, vaguely
• fake

popular  noun (prefix)  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  dated term  noun  adverb 

• last (i.e. immediately preceding), previous, ex-, former
• pre- (e.g. premodern)
• before
• before, earlier

popular  obsolete kanji  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• versus, against, vs., v.
• to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180)
• toward ..., to ..., with ..., against ..., anti-
• equal footing, equal terms
• opposite

popular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• wind, breeze, draught, draft
• manner, behaviour, behavior
• cold, influenza