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)
- sooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Laysan albatross (Diomedea immutabilis)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- house swift (Apus nipalensis)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- white-throated needletail (species of swift, Hirundapus caudacutus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- streaked shearwater (species of seabird, Calonectris leucomelas)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- white-rumped swift (Apus caffer)
usually written using kana alone adverb
- perhaps, possibly, by some chance, by some possibility
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone expression noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic)
- as it is, plain (truth), bare, undisguised, unvarnished, unexaggerated, honest, true, frank, candid