List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading idiomatic expression expression
- preaching to the deaf, wind (blowing) into a horse's ear
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) adverb
- moment, instant, short amount of time
obsolete reading food, cooking noun noun (generic)
- dried taro stem
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- (roof) beam
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- one bank (of a river)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- ceremonial offering to the deities by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice
obsolete reading numeric
- 7000, seven thousand
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) archaic
- mountain clouds
- mountains and clouds
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- cow
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- caramel-coloured cow