List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone adverb noun noun (generic)
- especially, particularly, above all
- portioning out (servings of food)
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- riddle, puzzle, enigma
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- somehow, for some reason (or other), without knowing why
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ prefix abbreviation noun noun (generic) slang
- sudden, abrupt, unexpected, immediate
- improvised, hasty, impromptu, offhand
- impromptu skit
- bandwagon fan, fair-weather fan
popular search-only kana form ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- easy, easygoing, carefree, happy-go-lucky, optimistic, leisurely, careless, thoughtless
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- fleeting, transient, short-lived, momentary, ephemeral, fickle, vain
- empty (dream, etc.), mere (hope), faint (possibility)
popular irregular okurigana rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tear off, to peel off, to rip off, to strip off, to skin, to flay, to disrobe, to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- headband
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) finance
- moustache, mustache, beard, whiskers, sideburns, facial hair
- whiskers (on a cat, etc.), feelers (on an insect, etc.), (chin) tuft
- shadow (on a candlestick chart)
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- for now, for the time being, for the present
- though not quite satisfactorily, after a fashion