List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- any brown or reddish-brown frog of the family Ranidae
- Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- starry handfish (Halieutaea stellata)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial
- brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus)
- Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis)
- Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
- dysentery
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese evergreen oak (Quercus acuta)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- pickled sardines, dried sardines, red sardines
- rusty and blunt sword
search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sponger (e.g. off one's parents), hanger-on, freeloader, leech
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- yoke
- constraints, oppression
usually written using kana alone adverb
- so much