List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete kanji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- nori, laver, edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- ant
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- apple (fruit)
- apple tree (Malus pumila)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- shark
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to recollect, to remember, to reminisce, to be nostalgic for
- to imagine, to guess, to infer
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- ridge of earth between rice fields
- ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel
- footpath between rice fields, causeway
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- diving, diver
- unlicensed (doctor, driver, etc.), unregistered, unqualified
- outsider, stranger
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- mandala
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus), false holly
- holly
- spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb interjection
- to understand, to comprehend, to grasp, to see, to get, to follow
- to become clear, to be known, to be discovered, to be realized, to be realised, to be found out
- I know!, I think so too!