List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to seize, to catch, to grasp, to grip, to grab, to clutch, to hold, to catch hold of, to lay one's hands on
- to obtain, to acquire, to get, to win, to capture
- to understand, to grasp, to comprehend
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- coherence, consistency
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone food, cooking dated term
- to bind, to file
- to finish (a dish) by pouring beaten egg into the broth
- to sew up, to stitch together
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo usually written using kana alone intransitive verb
- to hang, to suspend, to sling, to wear (e.g. a sword), to put up (e.g. a shelf)
- to hang oneself
- to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth
- to turn upwards (as if being pulled), to be slanted (of eyes)
- to pucker (e.g. of a seam), to be pulled tight
popular search-only kana form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- razor
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- ladder
- stairs
- going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
popular usually written using kana alone adverb
- soon, before long, shortly thereafter
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) slang
- top, summit, apex, peak
- twelve o'clock (usu. midnight)
- top of one's head, top of a helmet, (top of) scalp, crown
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be lit (of a lamp, burner, etc.), to catch fire, to ignite, to start burning
- to be turned on (of a light, appliance, etc.), to come on
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) idiomatic expression Buddhism noun
- (doing) various things, (doing) this and that
- being apt to, being prone to, tending to
- at any rate, anyhow, anyway
- all sorts of (negative things), various
- things that do not exist, rabbit horns