List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
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
gairaigo Portuguese origin popular obsolete reading ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Greece
gairaigo German origin popular obsolete reading ateji rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone medicine noun noun (generic)
- typhoid, paratyphoid
- typhus
obsolete reading obsolete kanji noun noun (generic) sensitive
- muteness, speech impairment
- mute, deaf-mute
obsolete reading yojijukugo ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ
- treacherous, heinous, treasonous, atrocious
obsolete reading obsolete kanji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- horsefly, gadfly
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- recitation, reciting from memory
ๆกๅฑฑๅญใใใkakashiobsolete reading rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- scarecrow
- figurehead, dummy
obsolete reading obsolete kanji noun noun (generic)
- treachery, treacherous designs