List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- cruel, heartless, hard, harsh, severe
- violent, intense, strong, heavy, extreme
- very bad, terrible, awful
- excessive, exorbitant, unreasonable, outrageous, unfair, unjust
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- skylark (Alauda arvensis)
- Mongolian lark (Melanocorypha mongolica)
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 rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- increasingly, more and more
- decreasingly, 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 go (game)
- 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)
- eye (empty space inside a group of stones)
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 search-only kanji form 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