List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- easy, plain, simple
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) adverb
- far away, far off, far, distant, in the distance
- long ago, long before
popular ateji usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to capture, to seize, to plunder, to steal, to snatch, to grab
popular sensitive dated term usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- China
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to go under, to pass under, to go through, to pass through
- to dive (into or under the water)
- to evade, to get around, to slip past
- to survive, to surmount
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 familiar language usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- police officer
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- saw
- musical saw
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to pierce, to penetrate, to soak in, to permeate
- to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.), to smart, to twinge
- to be infected (with vice), to be steeped (with prejudice), to be influenced
- to feel keenly, to make a deep impression
popular noun noun (generic) euphemistic usually written using kana alone
- one thing, one article
- ulterior motive, secret intention, secret scheme, plot
- penis
- money
popular usually written using kana alone expression noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- incoherent, wandering, vague, rambling, whimsical