List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
usually written using kana alone food, cooking noun noun (generic) Touhoku-ben
- mashed boiled green soybeans
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- dog tapeworm (Dipylidium caninum), cucumber tapeworm, double-pore tapeworm
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- buckwheat cookie
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- blunt slipper lobster (species of shovel-nosed lobster, Scyllarides squammosus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Asian constable (species of butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- slipper lobster of genus Scyllarus (esp. species Scyllarus cultrifer)
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Crepidiastrum keiskeanum (species of plant in the daisy family)