List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cotton plant (Gossypium spp.)
- batting, wadding, padding
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- contest, comparison, competition
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone honorific language expression
- please (give me)
- please (do for me)
popular noun noun (generic) go (game) usually written using kana alone prefix
- living, being alive
- freshness, liveliness, vitality
- situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps
- stet (proofreading), leave as-is
- damned
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- white-eye family of birds (Zosteropidae)
- Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
popular search-only kana form usually written using kana alone adverb
- too (much), overly, excessively
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone
- furnished with, including
- attached to
- impression, appearance
- luck
- sociality
- under, assistant (e.g. to a manager)
- soup base
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- pivot
- vital point, cornerstone, keystone
- Japanese photinia
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun (suffix) noun (generic) archaic noun
- better, preferable, less objectionable, least-worst
- more, increase, extra
- increase, growth
็ฟใใsarupopular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) derogatory archaic
- monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata), ape, non-human primate
- sly person
- idiot, hick
- sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
- clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
- bathhouse prostitute