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List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage

Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.

Showing 411 - 420 of 744 words for the list out-dated or obsolete kana usage. #ok
粗食そしょくsoshoku

obsolete reading  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb 

  • simple diet, plain food, simple food, frugal meal
双六すごろくsugoroku

obsolete reading  rarely used kanji form  ateji  search-only kanji form  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

  • race game (board game played with dice in which the object is to reach the end of a track)
  • ban-sugoroku, sugoroku, traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon
長旅ながたびnagatabi

obsolete reading  noun  noun (generic) 

  • long journey, long trip
呈上ていじょうteijou

obsolete reading  honorific language  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb 

  • giving, gifting, presenting
天下無双てんかむそうtenkamusou

obsolete reading  yojijukugo  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  noun  noun (generic) 

  • peerless, unequaled, unequalled
塗れるまみれるmamireru

obsolete reading  usually written using kana alone  Ichidan verb  verb (generic)  intransitive verb 

  • to be smeared, to be covered
土筆つくしtsukushi

gikun or jukujikun  obsolete reading  noun  noun (generic) 

  • fertile shoot of field horsetail
  • wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings)
あずまazuma

obsolete reading  JLPT N1  archaic  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation 

  • eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara), eastern provinces
  • east
  • wagon, yamatogoto, six-stringed native Japanese zither
  • my spouse
同宿どうしゅくdoushuku

obsolete reading  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb 

  • lodging in the same place
撞木しゅもくshumoku

obsolete reading  Buddhism  noun  noun (generic) 

  • T-shaped wooden bell hammer

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