List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- sacred horse
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) archaic
- frozen dew
- frost and dew
- years, time
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- long snake
- long line (of people, etc.)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- bow with a heavy draw weight, someone who wields a heavy-draw-weight bow
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- sage, wise man, wise person, man of wisdom
- buddha, bodhisattva, enlightened priest
obsolete reading search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- resting one's chin in one's hands
- brace (in construction), angle brace
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- pus
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- bodily build, degree of fleshiness
obsolete reading Shinto noun noun (generic)
- branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering)
- sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- red face
- villain (in kabuki, jลruri, etc.)