List: noun, used as a suffix
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 rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone abbreviation suffix
- rise, increase, ascent
- income, takings, earnings, proceeds, (crop) yield, return, profit
- completion, end, finish
- end result (e.g. of crafts), how something comes out, finish
- finishing (in a board or card game, etc.)
- green tea (esp. in a sushi restaurant)
- after (rain, illness, etc.)
- ex- (e.g. ex-bureaucrat), former
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter noun (suffix)
- needle, pin
- hook
- stinger, thorn
- hand (e.g. clock, etc.), pointer
- staple (for a stapler)
- needlework, sewing
- malice
- counter for stitches
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- drawing, picture, diagram, figure, illustration, chart, graph, map
- sight, scene
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- warship
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) archaic
- advocate (of a theory or principle), ideologist, ideologue
- -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)
- socialist, communist, anarchist
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- just before, on the verge of, on the brink of
- just in front of, just ahead of
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) noun (prefix) colloquial
- nisei, second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.), person of Japanese parentage with non-Japanese citizenship
- the second (e.g. Edward II)
- son
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- progress, pace, carriage, step, stage
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- fishing, gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed)
- catch (e.g. of fish), haul