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) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.), irregularity, nonuniformity, blotchiness
- unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.), inconsistency, instability
- fickleness, capriciousness, fitfulness
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation archaic usually written using kana alone
- sickle
- leading question, trick question
- sickle-and-chain (weapon)
- spear with curved cross-blades
- gooseneck tenon and mortise joint
- noisiness
- part of a fish around the gills
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks), to grip (from both sides)
- to put between, to sandwich between, to insert, to interpose
- to catch (e.g. a finger in a door), to trap, to pinch
- to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings), to interpose (e.g. an objection), to interject, to throw in (e.g. a joke)
- to be on either side of (a road, table, etc.), to have between each other, to be across (a street, river, etc.)
- to harbour (feelings), to cast (e.g. doubt)
- to pincer
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- rare, seldom
popular irregular okurigana search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to come down, to go down, to fall, to drop, to sink, to get lower
- to hang, to dangle
- to move back, to step back, to withdraw, to retire
- to deteriorate, to fall off, to be downgraded
- to get closer to the present day
- to play a sagari, to extend downwards
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.), to inherit, to take over, to follow
- to patch (clothes), to mend, to repair
- to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire), to replenish with, to feed with, to follow up with (e.g. remarks), to gather (one's breath)
- to connect (stones)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) go (game) interjection
- no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken
- hopeless, wasted, in vain, purposeless
- cannot, must not, not allowed
- neutral point, intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
- no!, stop!
popular JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ
- mostly, ordinarily, usually, generally
- probably
- most, almost all
- ordinary
- proper, appropriate, moderate
popular JLPT N4 humble language usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to do
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- plover