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)
- Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- bishop wood (Bischofia javanica)
- barked tree
- red tree
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- congelation, congealment, jelly
- jellied fish broth
search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone food, cooking noun noun (generic)
- yabu soba, green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff
obsolete reading search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone prefix
- extreme, ultra, mega, totally, very much, precisely, exactly
- damn, stupid, cursed
usually written using kana alone derogatory noun noun (generic)
- head, dome, bean, nob, noggin
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone expression
- everybody, every last one of them, all
rarely used kanji form archaic polite language usually written using kana alone expression honorific language
- to be, to exist
- to come, to go, to be (somewhere)
rarely used kanji form abbreviation usually written using kana alone polite language expression honorific language archaic
- to be, to exist
- to come, to go, to be (somewhere)