List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular usually written using kana alone adverb
- something, some kind of
- for some reason
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb
- in its entirety, whole, wholly
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) computing usually written using kana alone go (game)
- queue jumping, breaking into a line, muscling in on, wedging oneself in, interruption, sharing a theater box (theatre)
- interrupt
- wedge
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation colloquial
- wild goose
- glans, head of a penis
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone suffix Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to be unable to, to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do
- to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously, to contain (or combine) two or more features
- to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.), to do alongside
- to hesitate to do something (out of consideration for others)
- to think of the future (as well as the present)
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes)
- fox (i.e. a sly person)
- soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu
- light brown, golden brown
popular usually written using kana alone adverb adverb taking the 㨠particle noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã verb (generic) noun (generic) intransitive verb
- comfortably, peacefully, freely, with one's mind at ease, unrestrained, calmly, without worries, relaxed, carefree
- (growing) quickly
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- often, again and again, over and over again, repeatedly, frequently
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to be, to exist, to live
- to have
- to be located
- to be equipped with
- to happen, to come about
- to exist (in a completed state), to be (something unchanged in its current state)
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- ghost, apparition
- goblin, monster, demon
- something unusually large