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)
- warmth
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ă adjective adjective (generic)
- trivial, trifling, insignificant, not worth bothering with, worthless, useless, good-for-nothing
- stupid, nonsensical, absurd, foolish, silly
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- always, all the time, at all times
- never
- usual, regular, habitual, customary
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone honorific language pronoun
- who
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- one's house, one's home, one's family, one's household
- house
çŹç”ăăă€kotatsupopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- kotatsu, table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to ill-treat, to bully, to torment, to pick on, to tease, to be cruel to, to persecute
- to be tough on (e.g. one's body), to treat harshly
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- eggplant (Solanum melongena), aubergine
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become misty, to become hazy
- to get blurry, to grow dim
- to be overshadowed, to be upstaged, to be outshone
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to untie, to unfasten, to unwrap, to undo, to unbind, to unpack
- to unsew, to unstitch
- to solve, to work out, to answer
- to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.), to clear up, to remove (suspicion), to appease
- to dissolve (a contract), to cancel, to remove (a prohibition), to lift (a ban), to raise (a siege)
- to release (from duty), to relieve, to dismiss
- to comb (out), to card, to untangle (hair)