List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone expression adverb
- well, properly, suitably
- best regards, please remember me, please treat me favorably (favourably), please take care of, please do
- just like ..., as though one were ...
- by all means, of course
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to scoop, to ladle out
popular usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to stammer, to stutter
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- on the contrary, rather, instead, all the more
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to feel dizzy, to have blood rush to one's head
- to lose one's cool
- to be obsessed, to be infatuated
- to become conceited
popular humble language usually written using kana alone suffix derogatory
- first-person plural (or singular)
- second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to beg, to pester, to plead, to coax, to hound, to importune
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone honorific language godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to say, to speak, to tell
- to be called
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adverb
- a little, a few, small, slight, trifling, meagre, meager, narrow (margin)
- only, just, merely, no more than
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- waste, scrap, garbage, dregs
- scum, piece of trash, loser