List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- tin (Sn)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb
- barely, narrowly, only just, with difficulty
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- bush clover, Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)
- dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn)
- Hagi (city in Yamaguchi)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ colloquial usually written using kana alone
- leaping flames, flying sparks
- spread of fire (due to leaping flames)
- repercussions in unanticipated areas, spilling over, effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved
- impetigo contagiosa
popular JLPT N3 honorific language usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to give, to confer, to bestow
- to kindly do for one, to oblige, to favour, to favor
ๆ ใใkuripopular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb conjunction
- furthermore, again, after all, more and more, moreover, even more
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone expression adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- as much as one can, as much as possible, if at all possible
popular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic) usually written using kana alone auxiliary adjective
- wanting (to have), desiring, wishing for
- I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone historical term sensitive derogatory archaic
- log
- dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
- test subject (of human experiments performed by Unit 731 during WWII)
- prostitute dressed as a Buddhist nun