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)
- broadbanded thornyhead (Sebastolobus macrochir), broadfin thornyhead, kichiji rockfish
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga japonica)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Anna's woodpecker (Calypte anna)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- olivaceous piculet (species of bird, Picumnus olivaceus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus), Japanese sardine
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Atlantic salmon (Salmo salmar)