List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to feel dizzy, to have blood rush to one's head
- to lose one's cool
- to be obsessed, to be infatuated
- to become conceited
popular humble language usually written using kana alone suffix derogatory
- first-person plural (or singular)
- second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to beg, to pester, to plead, to coax, to hound, to importune
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone honorific language godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to say, to speak, to tell
- to be called
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adverb
- a little, a few, small, slight, trifling, meagre, meager, narrow (margin)
- only, just, merely, no more than
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- waste, scrap, garbage, dregs
- scum, piece of trash, loser
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- patching (clothing), darning
- cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.), gathering
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- connection, link, relationship
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb go (game)
- to connect, to link together
- to tie, to fasten, to restrain
- to maintain, to preserve, to keep
- to transfer (phone call), to put a person through
- to hedge, to buy or sell forward
- to connect (stones)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- yawn, yawning
- kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)