List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be closed, to be blocked, to be healed (e.g. wound), to be shut up
- to be clogged, to be plugged up
- to be occupied, to be taken (e.g. accommodation)
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- faint, indistinct, dim, vague, subtle, delicate
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- increasingly, more and more, decreasingly (when declining), less and less
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to regard (as), to consider (to be), to deem, to look upon (as), to think of (as)
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- rather, better, instead, if anything
็ฎใmepopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) suffix usually written using kana alone
- eye, eyeball
- eyesight, sight, vision
- look, stare, gaze, glance
- notice, attention, observation, eyes (of the world, public, etc.)
- an experience
- viewpoint
- discrimination, discernment, judgement, eye (e.g. for quality)
- (an) appearance
- chance (of success), possibility (of a good result)
- spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.), opening, stitch, texture, weave
- grain (of wood, paper)
- eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)
- intersection (on a go board), square (on a chessboard)
- dot (on a dice), pip, rolled number
- graduation, division (of a scale)
- tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)
- ordinal number suffix
- somewhat, -ish
- point (e.g. of change)
popular ateji usually written using kana alone yojijukugo ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb
- disorderly, messy, ruined
- absurd, unreasonable, excessive, rash
- very, extremely
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- wasteful, a waste
- too good, more than one deserves, unworthy of
- impious, profane, sacrilegious
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- jealousy
- roasted rice cake
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cradle