popular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  abbreviation  noun (suffix)  noun (prefix)  colloquial 

• iron (Fe)
• steel
• iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.)
• railway
• railway enthusiast

popular  obsolete reading  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• plain, field
• hidden (structural) member
• wild
• lacking a political post

popular  noun (prefix)  noun (generic)  abbreviation  noun 

• (of) Japanese descent
• non-Japanese of Japanese descent, nikkeijin
• company, etc. set up with Japanese capital, company managed by Japanese or non-Japanese of Japanese descent

popular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  food, cooking  colloquial  noun (prefix) 

• salt, common salt, table salt, sodium chloride
• hardship, toil, trouble
• saltiness
• cold, unwelcoming, indifferent

popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• making, producing, manufacturing, building, construction, make, structure
• appearance (attire, make-up, etc.)
• build, physique
• sashimi
• forced (smile, etc.)

popular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• down-train, train heading toward the ending point of its route
• down-slope, downward going
• downbound (esp. away from Tokyo)
• downstream, downhill

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  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  noun (prefix) 

• errand, mission, going on an errand
• messenger, bearer, errand boy, errand girl
• familiar spirit
• use, usage, user, trainer, tamer, handler, charmer

popular  JLPT N3  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  な adjective  noun  noun (generic)  mathematics  noun (prefix) 

• reverse, opposite
• converse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
• inverse (function)

popular  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  noun (prefix) 

• ascent, climbing, ascending (path), climb
• up-train, train heading toward the starting point of its route
• upbound (esp. toward Tokyo)
• upstream, uphill