List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading archaic noun noun (generic)
- swan
obsolete reading Japanese mythology noun noun (generic)
- mizuchi, aquatic, dragon-like beast with four feet, horns and poisonous breath
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- endlessness
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- lotus leaf
- vulgar, wanton
obsolete reading formal or literary term い adjective adjective (generic)
- complete, whole, perfect, entire
- safe
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- high-grade sake, good sake
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- foot of a mountain, base of a mountain
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- offense (against the law), offence, violation
obsolete reading usually written using kana alone medicine noun noun (generic)
- ringworm (of the scalp), tinea capitis
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- child from an earlier wife
- preceding one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku)