List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular rarely used kana form obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- moonlit night
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- mosquito net
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- sumo wrestler, rikishi
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) abbreviation shogi
- badger
- Eurasian badger (Meles meles)
- anaguma castle (defensive opening)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- aristocrat, nobleman, dignitary, person of high rank
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- spoon
popular obsolete reading godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to go through, to pierce, to penetrate
- to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.), to carry out, to persist with, to keep (e.g. faith), to maintain (e.g. independence)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- birth, lineage, parentage, origin
- identity, background, history, past
- provenance, origin
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- eyelid
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- unevenness, roughness, ruggedness, bumpiness
- inequality, imbalance, unevenness, difference