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 obsolete term
- singing, song
- music class (at pre-WWII schools), song for music classes
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- tusk, fang
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) colloquial
- fighting scene, scene of carnage (bloodshed)
- location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra
- difficulties (in a love relationship)
- crunch time (esp. for cartoonists)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- costume, dress, attire
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- dairy cow, dairy cattle, milk cow, milch cow
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- wholly, solely, entirely, exclusively, devotedly, fixedly
- principally, mostly, chiefly, mainly
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- good luck, fortune, happiness
- harvest, yield
popular obsolete reading historical term noun noun (generic)
- chลnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants), townspeople, townsfolk, tradespeople
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- setting off (on a long journey), setting out, departure (e.g. for the front), leaving home
- starting a new life, starting life anew
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- land made arable by the slash-and-burn method, swidden, slash-and-burn farming