List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese giant flying squirrel (Petaurista leucogenys)
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
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- scarecrow
- figurehead, dummy