Can Japanese words with kanji and hiragana in them start with hiragana characters? If so how common are they?


Pretty much every word I've seen so far that contain both kanji and hiragana,
always starts with the kanji character(s) first Like 大きい, 見る, 乗り物 and 話す. The
only exceptions I've seen so far are お金 and ある日, but one of them isn't even
used in conversational Japanese. Do like 99% of the words have this same
format to them?




This occurs with prefixes that have no kana or are normally written in kana:

  * ど真ん中
  * ひん曲がる
  * ぶん回す
  * お握り

And in compound words of kana (mainly onomatopoeias) and kanji words:

  * きら星
  * つるっ禿げ
  * どんでん返し

When the first kanji is difficult enough, it can be safely written in kana:

  * ごう音 (轟音)
  * あ然 (唖然)
  * ぶどう糖 (葡萄糖)
  * けん責 (譴責)

Such words are relatively uncommon, but not rare.




This occurs with prefixes that have no kana or are normally written in kana:

  * ど真ん中
  * ひん曲がる
  * ぶん回す
  * お握り

And in compound words of kana (mainly onomatopoeias) and kanji words:

  * きら星
  * つるっ禿げ
  * どんでん返し

When the first kanji is difficult enough, it can be safely written in kana:

  * ごう音 (轟音)
  * あ然 (唖然)
  * ぶどう糖 (葡萄糖)
  * けん責 (譴責)

Such words are relatively uncommon, but not rare.

