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)
- one's house, one's home, one's family, one's household
- house
çŹç”ăăă€kotatsupopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- kotatsu, table over an electric heater, with a hanging quilt to retain heat (orig. over a charcoal brazier in a floor well)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to ill-treat, to bully, to torment, to pick on, to tease, to be cruel to, to persecute
- to be tough on (e.g. one's body), to treat harshly
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- eggplant (Solanum melongena), aubergine
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become misty, to become hazy
- to get blurry, to grow dim
- to be overshadowed, to be upstaged, to be outshone
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to untie, to unfasten, to unwrap, to undo, to unbind, to unpack
- to unsew, to unstitch
- to solve, to work out, to answer
- to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.), to clear up, to remove (suspicion), to appease
- to dissolve (a contract), to cancel, to remove (a prohibition), to lift (a ban), to raise (a siege)
- to release (from duty), to relieve, to dismiss
- to comb (out), to card, to untangle (hair)
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to undo, to untie, to unfasten, to unlace, to unravel, to loosen, to unpack
popular usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to come loose, to come untied, to come undone, to unravel
- to loosen up (e.g. tension)
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- mustard
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb computing mathematics food, cooking sports usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to open, to undo, to unseal, to unpack
- to bloom, to unfold, to spread out
- to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)
- to be wide (gap, etc.), to widen
- to hold (meeting, party, etc.), to give, to open
- to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.), to open (a new business), to set up, to establish, to start
- to open (ports, borders, etc.)
- to open (an account)
- to open up (new land, path, etc.), to clear, to develop
- to open (a file, etc.)
- to extract (root), to reduce (equation)
- to cut open (fish)
- to change (kanji into hiragana)
- to flare (e.g. skirt)
- to slacken (into a poor posture)
- to extend