List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- neck
- head
- dismissal (from a job), firing, sacking
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- already, too late
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone mahjong
- hill, height, knoll, rising ground
- bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone colloquial
- cherry tree, cherry blossom
- fake buyer, paid audience, shill, seat filler
- hired applauder
- horse meat
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Thailand
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone expression adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic)
- something, something or other, so-and-so
- somehow, anyhow, one way or another
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) pronoun adverb
- everyone, everybody, all
- everything, all
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb conjunction
- still, yet
- more, still more, greater, further
- as ..., like ...
- furthermore, in addition, moreover, note that ...
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- bomb
- alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shลchลซ highball, also beer with whiskey)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone go (game) archaic Osaka-ben
- beach, seashore
- captured pieces, captured stones
- Yokohama
- riverbank, riverside