| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 苔 | こけ | moss; short plants resembling moss (inc. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.) |
| 海苔 | のり | nori (edible seaweed, esp. species Porphyra tenera and others of genus Porphyra, usu. dried and pressed into sheets), laver |
| 苔むす | こけむす | to become covered in moss, to become aged |
| アイスランド苔 | アイスランドごけ, イスランドごけ | Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica), Iceland lichen |
| イスランド苔 | アイスランドごけ, イスランドごけ | Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica), Iceland lichen |
| 乾海苔 | ほしのり | dried edible seaweed |
| 苔状 | たいじょう | mossy |
| 苔類 | こけるい | bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, inc. mosses, hornworts and liverworts) |
| 苔癬 | たいせん | lichen |
| 蘚苔 | せんたい | moss, bryophyte |