List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun dated term
- when, at what time, how soon
- normal times, ordinary days
popular usually written using kana alone conjunction
- therefore, consequently
popular usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- small, little, tiny, insignificant, humble, modest, meagre, meager
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- athlete's foot
- water boatman (esp. species Hesperocorixa distanti)
- Asellus hilgendorfi (species of aquatic sowbug)
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb adverb taking the ใจ particle ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- very, extremely, surprisingly, fairly, quite, considerably, awfully, terribly
- terrible, horrid, contemptible, reprehensible
- remarkable, extraordinary
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sea bream (esp. Pagrus major), porgy
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- madder (esp. Japanese madder, Rubia argyi)
- madder (red color)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa), moutan
- wild boar (meat)
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic) archaic
- risky, dangerous, hazardous, perilous, close (e.g. game), narrow (e.g. victory)
- suggestive, bordering on the obscene, risquรฉ, delicate (e.g. question), questionable, shady
- extreme, harsh, cruel
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone slang
- thrust, charge, penetration
- digging into (a matter), depth
- straight man (of a comedy duo)
- quip, gibe, jab, dig, retort, riposte, comeback
- putting everything together, including everything
- (penetrative) sex, intercourse