List: word usually written using kana alone
Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana.
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 polite language noun noun (generic) honorific language abbreviation usually written using kana alone interjection
- holiday, day off, absence
- sleep, rest
- good night
popular usually written using kana alone expression noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- the very thing, itself
popular usually written using kana alone expression
- thank you very much
popular usually written using kana alone expression
- wrong, not good, of no use
- hopeless, past hope
- must not do
- cannot go
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb interjection
- another helping, second helping, seconds, refill
- other paw!
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to run over (with a vehicle), to knock down
popular usually written using kana alone ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- unable to finish (on time, etc.)
- unbearable, intolerable, beyond endurance, too much
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- hammer
- hopeless swimmer, person who can't swim, someone who sinks like a stone
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sow, to plant, to seed
- to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict)
- to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to remain, to abide, to stay (in the one place)
- to be limited to, to be confined to, to only account for