List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone adverb
- considerably, greatly, a lot
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- elegance, dandyism, sophistication, having style
- affectation, showing off, putting on an air, appearances, doing something just for show
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- hawk, falcon
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- (corrugated) cardboard
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- wild boar, wild pig
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial
- lily (Lilium spp.)
- yuri, genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), Indian lotus, lotus
- rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) idiomatic expression usually written using kana alone card games
- storm, tempest
- uproar, hullabaloo, storm (e.g. of protest), winds (e.g. of change)
- pile of 3 cards of the same value in oicho-kabu
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze
- to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk
- to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice)
- to extort, to exploit
- to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke
- to drill into, to train
- to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down
- to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring)
- to stop down (lens)
- to turn down (e.g. radio)
- to bend (bow), to draw
- to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize
- to squeeze
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone
- coming out, going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon)
- attending (work), appearing (on stage), one's turn to go on
- start, beginning
- origins, background, person (or item) originating from ..., graduate of ..., native of ..., member of ... (lineage)
- architectural member that projects outward
- highest point of the stern of a ship
- amount (comprising something), amount of time or effort required to do something