List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ăź adjective (generic)
- patching (clothing), darning
- cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.), gathering
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- connection, link, relationship
popular obsolete kanji irregular kanji usage JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be tied together, to be connected to, to be linked to
- to lead to, to be related to
- to be related (by blood)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb go (game)
- to connect, to link together
- to tie, to fasten, to restrain
- to maintain, to preserve, to keep
- to transfer (phone call), to put a person through
- to hedge, to buy or sell forward
- to connect (stones)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă intransitive verb
- yawn, yawning
- kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- fragment, broken piece, chip, splinter, shard
- ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.), trace, shred, scrap
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- (clenched) fist, knuckles
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb slang
- to turn up, to roll up (e.g. sleeves)
- to do over and over again, to do relentlessly, to do with reckless abandon, to do continuously
- to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.), to come from behind
popular usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to turn over, to turn (pages), to leaf through (a book, etc.)
- to tear off, to strip off, to take off, to pull off (e.g. a blanket), to pull up (e.g. floorboards), to tear up
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone adverb
- from the beginning, from the first, all along, originally
- of course
- not to mention ..., not only ... but also ..., to say nothing of ...