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)
- house mosquito (genus Culex)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- housefly (Musca domestica), house fly
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- wax tree (Toxicodendron succedaneum), Japanese wax tree
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- kobus magnolia (Magnolia kobus)
rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata), seven-spot ladybird
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese rowan (Sorbus commixta)
rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial
- miso lees, miso strainings, miso dregs
- worthless thing, good-for-nothing
- child who is left out of games, child who is made light of, child treated unequally by peers
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- unexpected
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- speaking fondly about one's sweetheart (spouse, girlfriend, etc.), going on about one's love affairs
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- enumeration (of similar things), listing, catalog, catalogue