List: word usually written using kana alone

popular  obsolete reading  JLPT N2  usually written using kana alone  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  intransitive verb 

• to be closed, to be blocked, to be healed (e.g. wound), to be shut up
• to be clogged, to be plugged up
• to be occupied, to be taken (e.g. accommodation)

popular  rarely used kanji form  usually written using kana alone  な adjective  adjective (generic) 

• faint, indistinct, dim, vague, subtle, delicate

popular  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  adverb 

• increasingly, more and more, decreasingly (when declining), less and less

popular  rarely used kanji form  usually written using kana alone  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  transitive verb 

• to regard (as), to consider (to be), to deem, to look upon (as), to think of (as)

popular  irregular okurigana  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  adverb 

• rather, better, instead, if anything

popular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  suffix  usually written using kana alone  go (game) 

• eye, eyeball
• eyesight, sight, vision
• look, stare, gaze, glance
• notice, attention, observation, eyes (of the world, public, etc.)
• an experience
• viewpoint
• discrimination, discernment, judgement, eye (e.g. for quality)
• (an) appearance
• chance (of success), possibility (of a good result)
• spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.), opening, stitch, texture, weave
• grain (of wood, paper)
• eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)
• intersection (on a go board), square (on a chessboard)
• dot (on a dice), pip, rolled number
• graduation, division (of a scale)
• tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)
• ordinal number suffix
• somewhat, -ish
• point (e.g. of change)
• eye (empty space inside a group of stones)

popular  ateji  usually written using kana alone  yojijukugo  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun  noun (generic)  adverb 

• disorderly, messy, ruined
• absurd, unreasonable, excessive, rash
• very, extremely

popular  search-only kanji form  JLPT N2  usually written using kana alone  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• wasteful, a waste
• too good, more than one deserves, unworthy of
• impious, profane, sacrilegious

popular  search-only kanji form  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• jealousy
• yakimochi (roasted rice cake)

popular  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  noun (suffix)  noun (generic)  noun 

• appearing ..., looking ...
• way to ..., method of ...ing
• form, style, design
• like, similar to
• thing (thought or spoken)