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)
- trout, sea trout
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- burn, scald
- getting one's fingers burned (e.g. poor investment, mixing with the wrong people)
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- frog
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- originally, from the start, from the beginning, from the outset, by nature
- none the worse (for), (coming out) even, in the same position (as before)
popular obsolete reading search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone go (game)
- interval, space, interstice, threshold
- valley, gorge, ravine
- loophole (in a wall), crenel, eyelet
- diagonal gap, move played in a diagonal gap, space between two stones diagonally apart
狸たぬきtanukipopular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides), raccoon dog
- sly dog, sly old fox, sly fox, cunning devil, sly person
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- kappa, mythical water-dwelling creature
- excellent swimmer
- cucumber
- cucumber sushi wrapped in nori
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- birch (esp. Japanese white birch)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- rhinoceros
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- lotus flower
- Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
- china spoon
- lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone