List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- proverb, saying, aphorism, maxim
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sitting cross-legged
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- pepper
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to step over, to step across, to stride over, to stride across, to cross
- to stretch over, to span, to bridge, to saddle, to straddle
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- later, afterwards
- future
- after one's death
- descendant
popular JLPT N1 honorific language polite language humble language usually written using kana alone prefix suffix
- honorific/polite/humble prefix
- honorific suffix
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- meddling, meddlesomeness, nosiness, interference, officiousness
- meddler, buttinsky, busybody
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone interjection honorific language noun noun (generic)
- I'm sorry, my apologies, excuse me, pardon me
- may I come in?
- permission, leave, license
- dismissal, discharge
- not wanting, objecting to, being fed up with, wishing to avoid
popular ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to deceive, to cheat, to swindle
- to falsify, to misrepresent, to lie about, to tamper with, to fiddle, to doctor, to cook
- to evade (a question, taxes, etc.), to dodge, to gloss over (a mistake, fault, etc.), to smooth over, to get one's way out of (a difficult situation), to explain away
- to embezzle, to pocket
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to grow senile, to be childish with age
- to be mentally slow, to be befuddled
- to play stupid, to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)