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)
- Chinese peacock (species of swallowtail butterfly, Papilio bianor)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cut-tailed bullhead (species of catfish, Pseudobagrus aurantiacus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Calopteryx cornelia (species of damselfly)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Schlegel's green tree frog (Rhacophorus schlegelii)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- forest green tree frog (Rhacophorus arboreus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- dusky tripletooth goby (Tridentiger obscurus)
search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- freshwater goby (any fish of genus Rhinogobius)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- goatsbeard brotula (species of ophidiiform fish, Brotula multibarbata)