List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- being rampant, being widespread, being prevalent
- walking sideways, staggering, striding
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee
- breakfast (in Zen temples)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- being lost for words, becoming speechless
- jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- clothes (that one is wearing)
- wearing clothes
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- Buddhist priest, bonze
- layman dressed like a priest
- person
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- calf
- small cow
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- nectar
- honey
- honeydew
- treacle, molasses
- sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb baseball
- to play (games, sports), to enjoy oneself, to have a good time
- to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.)
- to be idle, to do nothing, to be unused
- to meet up (with friends), to hang out
- to give oneself up (to gambling, drinking, etc.)
- to go to (for pleasure or for study)
- to tease (someone), to play (with)
- to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb Buddhism
- concentration, diligence, devotion
- asceticism, zeal in one's quest for enlightenment
- adherence to a vegetarian diet
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- traveller, traveler, wayfarer, tourist