List: Hiragana basic

Wordpopular  humble language  noun  noun (generic) 

• mother

Wordpopular  search-only kana form  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• fast, quick, rapid, swift, speedy, brisk, prompt
• early, soon, earlier than usual
• premature, too soon, too early
• easy, simple, quick, fast
• as soon as ..., the moment ..., the instant ...

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• spring, springtime
• New Year
• prime (of life), height (of one's prosperity), heyday
• adolescence, puberty
• sexuality, sexual desire

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  JLPT N1  suffix 

• -ian (e.g. Italian), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite)
• -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with ...
• man, person, people

Wordpopular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• noon, midday
• daytime
• lunch

Wordnoun  noun (generic) 

• Hikari, high-speed Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (faster than Kodama; slower than Nozomi)

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• winter

Wordpopular  JLPT N4  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  counter 

• ship, boat, watercraft, vessel, seaplane
• tank, tub, vat, trough
• counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• old, aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, timeworn
• long, since long ago, time-honored
• of the distant past, long-ago
• stale, threadbare, hackneyed, corny
• old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date