List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
rarely used kanji form obsolete kanji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)
search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone food, cooking noun noun (generic)
- sheet of dried sardines
irregular okurigana usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ
- the unvarnished truth
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ
- common, frequent
usually written using kana alone expression
- so slight as to be all but non-existent
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- value, worth, virtue, blessing
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone adverb
- to the end, to the bitter end, to the last, stubbornly, persistently, consistently, to the utmost
- after all, it must be remembered, only, purely, simply
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cowrie, cowry
rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- floating weed
- greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)
- precarious, unstable
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- plant hopper (any insect of family Delphacidae), leafhopper