List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- soon, shortly, before long, in a short time, in a little while
- having no time to ..., with no time to ...
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone slang suffix
- attack, offence, offense, assault
- top (dominant partner of a homosexual relationship)
- barrage (of), flood (of)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Pyongyang (North Korea)
popular usually written using kana alone interjection
- do your best, go for it, hang in there, keep at it
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) usually written using kana alone
- past, after
- too (much), over- (e.g. eating)
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- haze (esp. in spring), mist
- dimness (of sight)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- carrying (on one's person or in the hand)
- mobile phone, cell phone
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone hanafuda
- insect, bug, cricket, moth
- worm, roundworm
- thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings, (one's) unconscious
- nervousness, fretfulness
- person devoted to one thing, single-minded person
- valve core
- mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
popular noun noun (generic) horse racing usually written using kana alone
- corner, section, point, part
- one horn
- pillar (of a group, system, etc.), member (of an organization, etc.)
- first corner
- narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) archaic
- hometown, birthplace, native place, one's old home
- ruins, historic remains