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)
- rhinoceros
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- lotus flower
- Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
- china spoon
- lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone medicine
- muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
- lump (in tissue, esp. breast), swelling, hardening, lesion
- lingering discomfort, uneasiness, bad aftertaste, unpleasant feeling
popular noun noun (generic) slang usually written using kana alone
- leaf, blade (of grass), (pine) needle
- marijuana, cannabis
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- fluke, chance, pure luck
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic) adverb interjection
- how ...!, what ...!
- what?, what's that?
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone suffix
- to pass through, to pass by, to go beyond
- to pass (of time), to elapse
- to have expired, to have ended, to be over
- to exceed, to surpass, to be above
- to be no more than ...
- to be excessive, to be too much, to be too ...
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb shogi honorific language auxiliary verb
- to become, to get, to grow, to turn, to reach, to attain
- to result in, to turn out, to end up, to prove (to be)
- to consist of, to be composed of, to be made up of
- to be completed, to be realized, to succeed, to be attained, to be accomplished
- to change (into), to turn (into), to transform
- to come (to do), to begin (to do), to grow (to do)
- to come to, to amount to, to add up to, to make
- to play (the part of), to act as
- to be used for, to be useful for, to serve as
- to be promoted
- to do ...
ๆ็ฏใกใใใกใchouchinpopular obsolete kanji rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone colloquial
- paper lantern, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern
- snot bubble
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- hoof