List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular search-only kana form usually written using kana alone interjection
- I'm beaten, I give up, touché, you've got me there
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- dizzying (speed, changes, etc.), rapid, drastic, bewildering, hectic, bustling (e.g. world)
popular usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- needless
popular usually written using kana alone pronoun
- beyond, across, the other side, the distance
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- bump, lump, protuberance, swelling
popular usually written using kana alone suffix い adjective adjective (generic)
- difficult to ..., hard to ...
popular JLPT N2 abbreviation usually written using kana alone interjection honorific language noun noun (generic)
- (please) try to
- (please) look
- seeing, looking, watching
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone suffix
- to form, to make, to constitute
- to build up (e.g. a fortune), to create, to establish
- to accomplish, to achieve, to win (fame), to gain
- to change (into), to convert
- to do, to commit, to carry out, to bring about
- to do intentionally
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) derogatory dated term usually written using kana alone slang Internet slang
- Buddhist nun
- Catholic nun, sister
- bitch
- Amagasaki (city in Hyogo Prefecture)
- Amazon (online retailer)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)
- yellow catalpa (Catalpa ovata)
- Japanese mallotus (Mallotus japonicus)
- printing block
- catalpa bow
- catalpa medium