List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular obsolete reading JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- safety, security
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- development, cultivation, application
- exploitation (of resources)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- foreign country
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- constitution
- rules, regulation
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- language, dialect
- word, phrase, expression, term
- speech, (manner of) speaking, (use of) language
- words, remark, statement, comment
- learning to speak, language acquisition
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 adverb
- most, extremely
popular obsolete reading JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- accident, incident, trouble
- circumstances, reasons
popular obsolete reading search-only kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb biology geology
- organization, organisation, formation
- structure, construction, setup, constitution
- system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.)
- tissue
- texture (of a rock)
- weave (of a fabric)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun (prefix)
- man, male
- fellow, guy, chap, bloke
- male lover, boyfriend, man
- manliness, manly honor, manly honour, manly reputation
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- plot of land, lot, soil
- locality, region, place