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) 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
猿さるsarupopular search-only kanji form 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
popular irregular okurigana usually written using kana alone adverb numeric
- quite, very
- 10^48, quindecillion
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb
- to see, to look, to watch, to view, to observe
- to examine, to look over, to assess, to check, to judge
- to look after, to attend to, to take care of, to keep an eye on
- to experience, to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.)
- to try ..., to have a go at ..., to give ... a try
- to see (that) ..., to find (that) ...
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone transitive verb archaic
- to mind, to care about, to be concerned about, to have a regard for
- to be an issue, to matter, to create inconvenience
- to keep company, to care for, to look after, to entertain, to pay attention to, to spend time with
- to interfere with, to meddle in
- to tease
- to banish, to prohibit
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone conjunction
- therefore, consequently, accordingly