List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- simple diet, plain food, simple food, frugal meal
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
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- long journey, long trip
obsolete reading honorific language noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- giving, gifting, presenting
obsolete reading yojijukugo な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- peerless, unequaled, unequalled
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be smeared, to be covered
gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- fertile shoot of field horsetail
- wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings)
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
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- lodging in the same place
obsolete reading Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- T-shaped wooden bell hammer