List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- swim bladder, air bladder
obsolete reading obsolete kanji noun noun (generic)
- Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- spleen
obsolete reading search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone prefix
- extreme, ultra, mega, totally, very much, precisely, exactly
- damn, stupid, cursed
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- duo (ancient Chinese bell with a clapper and a long handle)
- large wind bell
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- merganser (any duck of genus Mergus)
obsolete reading search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- young sweetfish
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- rule, (ruled) line
- line (on a go board, shogi board, etc.)
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to dig out, to gouge out, to hollow out
- to scoop, to ladle, to bail
- to jerk (one's chin)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- Atai (post-Taika hereditary title often given to regional administrators)