List: Core Japanese words

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  adverb 

• now, the present time, just now, soon, immediately
• another, more

Wordpopular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  abbreviation 

• university, college
• former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators)
• the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

Wordpopular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  archaic 

• country, state
• region
• national government, central government
• home (i.e. hometown, home country)
• province (of Japan)
• land, earth

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  usually written using kana alone  noun (suffix)  prefix 

• thing, object, article, stuff, substance
• one's things, possessions, property, belongings
• things, something, anything, everything, nothing
• quality
• reason, the way of things
• used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen
• item classified as ..., item related to ..., work in the genre of ...
• cause of ..., cause for ...
• somehow, somewhat, for some reason
• really, truly

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  usually written using kana alone 

• person, someone, somebody
• human beings, mankind, man, people, humans
• human (Homo sapiens)
• (other) people, others
• character, personality, nature
• capable person, competent person, suitable person, right person
• adult, grown-up
• I, me, one

Wordpopular  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

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• Japan

Wordpopular  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 ...

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  adverb  grammar 

• time, hour, moment
• occasion, case
• chance, opportunity, season
• the times, the age, the day
• tense

Wordpopular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic) 

• minute (unit of time)
• fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)