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) archaic
- giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
- qilin (Chinese unicorn)
- horse that can ride 1000 ri in a day
popular usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to bend, to flutter, to wave
- to yield to, to be swayed by, to bow to, to obey
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- snoring, snore
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to turn away, to bear off, to veer away, to swerve from, to miss (e.g. a target)
- to deviate (e.g. of a conversation), to digress, to go astray, to wander
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone adverb
- why, how, for what reason
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- always, all the time, at all times
- (at) any time, whenever (you like)
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to be (of animate objects), to exist
- to stay
- to be ...-ing, to have been ...-ing
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb colloquial slang
- to go, to move (towards), to head (towards), to leave (for)
- to move through, to travel across, to walk along (e.g. a road)
- to go (well, badly, etc.), to proceed, to turn out, to get along
- to do (in a particular way), to go (with; a choice), to try
- to pass (of time, seasons, etc.), to go by
- to stream, to flow
- to die, to pass away
- to reach (a stage, extent, age, etc.), to get to, to go (so far as ...)
- to reach (of information, instructions, wind, etc.), to arrive
- to continue ..., to go on ..., to (progress) steadily, to gradually ..., to progressively ...
- to have an orgasm, to come, to cum
- to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic)
- straight (ahead), direct, upright, erect
- straightforward, honest, frank
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- person, someone, somebody
- human beings, mankind, man, people, humans
- human (Homo sapiens)
- (other) people, others
- character, personality, nature
- capable person, competent person, suitable person, right person
- adult, grown-up
- I, me, one