List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- redlip mullet (Chelon haematocheilus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- ground squirrel (esp. the Daurian ground squirrel, Spermophilus dauricus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- ground squirrel (esp. a ground squirrel of North America or Africa)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- climbing perch (esp. of genus Anabas)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- roundtail paradisefish (Macropodus ocellatus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis)
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone interjection dated term conjunction
- farewell, goodbye, adieu
- if so, in that case, then, and (then)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- omicron
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese night heron (Gorsachius goisagi)