List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- funeral, burial
- condolence
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- maid of honor, maid of honour, lady-in-waiting
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- boiled barley and rice
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- wastepaper, scrap paper
obsolete reading JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- spots, speckles, mottles
obsolete reading Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to bend, to curve, to warp, to distort, to disfigure
- to bend (the truth), to falsify, to twist
- to corrupt, to sully
gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese halfbeak (Hemiramphus sajori), stickleback
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- great-grandchild
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb Buddhism
- seclusion from the world
- monastic seclusion
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
- weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), pond loach