List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage

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

obsolete reading  rarely used kanji form  search-only kanji form  noun  noun (generic) 

• fetters, shackles, hobbles, encumbrance, hindrance, burden, trap

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

obsolete reading  rarely used kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  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