List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun colloquial euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- there, over there, that place, yonder, you-know-where
- genitals, private parts, nether regions
- that far, that much, that point
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides), Cape jessamine, gardenia
ๆญคๆนใใกใkochirapopular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun
- this way, this direction
- here
- this (one)
- I, me, we, us
- this person
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) pronoun
- this way, here
- the person in question, he, she, him, her
- since (a time in the past), prior to (a time in the future)
- me
- you
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) adverb
- this occasion, at this time, now
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form derogatory familiar language usually written using kana alone pronoun
- he, she, that person, that guy, that fellow
- that, that one, that thing
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys)
obsolete reading ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb colloquial
- naughty, mischievous, unruly, wild
- rascal, naughty kid
- delinquency, misconduct, straying from the right path
- bold (e.g. of an outfit), audacious, daring, flamboyant
gairaigo Italian origin popular obsolete reading ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Italy
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- inferno, hell