List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- sincerity, true heart, devotion
兎うさぎusagipopular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form irregular kanji usage JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- rabbit, hare, coney, cony, lagomorph (esp. leporids)
popular obsolete reading search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone printing
- throat
- singing voice
- gutter (inner margins of a book)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk), laity, man of the world, the world
- local manners, modern customs
- common, popular
- vulgar, low
popular obsolete reading noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) archaic
- villainous, rascally, knavish
- independent, self-reliant
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- interval, space, interstice, threshold
- valley, gorge, ravine
- loophole (in a wall), crenel, eyelet
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- kappa, mythical water-dwelling creature
- excellent swimmer
- cucumber
- cucumber sushi wrapped in nori
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- birch (esp. Japanese white birch)
popular obsolete reading godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to change (into), to turn (into), to transform (into), to become
- to influence
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) interjection
- pity, sorrow, grief, misery, compassion, pathos
- pitiable, pitiful, pathetic, miserable
- alack, alas