List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) historical term
- Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures)
- Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- money order, draft
- exchange (e.g. foreign)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- distinction, differentiation, discrimination
- discrimination (against people)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- choice, selection, option
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- sumo (wrestling)
- sumo wrestler, rikishi
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) abbreviation interjection
- east and west
- Orient and Occident, East and West
- ladies and gentlemen!, your attention, please!, roll-up, roll-up
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- fellow, mutual, companion, comrade
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb
- to approach, to draw near, to be imminent
- to press (someone for something), to urge, to compel
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- change, alternation, rotation, replacement, substitution, shift, relief, taking turns
popular obsolete reading suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to guarantee