List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
popular obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sedge (Cyperaceae spp., esp. members of genus Carex)
popular obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- Ainu
obsolete reading 'ku' adjective (archaic) adjective (generic)
- numerous, frequent
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
popular 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
obsolete reading onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb taking the ใจ particle adverb
- (speak) bluntly, frankly
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