List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to meet, to encounter, to see
- to have an accident, to have a bad experience
popular obsolete kanji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- firefly (Luciola cruciata), lightning bug, glowworm
popular search-only kana form chemistry noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- carbonic acid
- carbonated water, carbonated drink
- baking soda, sodium carbonate
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb
- (cannot) possibly, (not) by any means, (not) at all, utterly, absolutely
popular obsolete kanji Buddhism noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone abbreviation
- Amitabha (Buddha), Amida
- ghostleg lottery, ladder lottery, lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner
- wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama)
- Inari shrine, Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
- fox (said to be messengers of Inari)
- fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes)
- inarizushi
popular usually written using kana alone colloquial noun noun (generic)
- gun, pistol
- ohajiki, traditional children's game similar to marbles, played with coin-shaped pieces of coloured glass or plastic
- repellence
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone sports
- to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.), to puff on, to puff out (smoke)
- to rev (an engine), to race
- to put on (an air of), to act in a ... way, to behave as, to play (the role of)
- to shoot (a ball) too high, to blast over the bar
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- wholly, solely, entirely, exclusively, devotedly, fixedly
- principally, mostly, chiefly, mainly
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb particle
- extent, degree, measure
- limit, bounds
- (span of) time
- (a) distance
- the state of, the status of, the condition of
- about, around, approximately, or so
- as much as ..., to the extent of ..., like ...
- the more ... the more ...