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)
- shark
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to recollect, to remember, to reminisce, to be nostalgic for
- to imagine, to guess, to infer
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- ridge of earth between rice fields
- ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
- footpath between rice fields, causeway
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- diving, diver
- unlicensed (doctor, driver, etc.), unregistered, unqualified
- outsider, stranger
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- mandala
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus), false holly
- holly
- spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb interjection
- to understand, to comprehend, to grasp, to see, to get, to follow
- to become clear, to be known, to be discovered, to be realized (realised), to be found out, to make sense
- I know!, I think so too!
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- easy, plain, simple
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) adverb
- far away, far off, far, distant, in the distance
- long ago, long before
popular ateji usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to plunder, to capture, to seize
- to snatch away, to steal, to grab away