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)
- kangaroo rat (of North America; any rodent of genus Dipodomys)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- rat kangaroo (any marsupial of family Potoroidae, incl. bettongs and potoroos)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), Greenland right whale
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Epiophlebia superstes (species of living-fossil dragonfly endemic to Japan)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- apricot (Prunus armeniaca)
- Prunus persica var. densa (Chinese variety of peach)