List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
ateji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- รrรผmqi (China)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Lhasa (China)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- blackthroat seaperch (Doederleinia berycoides), rosy seabass
usually written using kana alone interjection Kansai-ben
- (please) don't, you had better not, quit it
ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- The Hague (Netherlands)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Indian rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri manillensis), ring-necked parakeet
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- golden orchid (Cephalanthera falcata), kinran
- very close friendship
usually written using kana alone archaic expression
- had it not been for, were it not for
usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb Hokkaido-ben Touhoku-ben
- to soak, to steep, to macerate
usually written using kana alone Shinto noun noun (generic)
- Amaterasu, sun goddess who is the ancestress of the Imperial House of Japan