List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Japanese halfbeak (Hemiramphus sajori), stickleback
obsolete reading search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- great-grandchild
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb
- even if, no matter (what), if, though, although, supposing, supposing that, -ever
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ 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
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- duplicity, treachery, double-dealing
gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
obsolete reading JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to dive (into or under water)
- to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under
- to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground
obsolete reading ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- elegant, exquisite
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb obsolete term
- probing (into), digging (into), prying (into), scrutiny, poking one's nose into, poking around
- excavation, digging