List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) Buddhism
- carrying out of rules, enforcing the law, execution
- practice of Buddhism, Buddhist training
obsolete reading poetical term noun noun (generic)
- thin ice
obsolete reading irregular okurigana noun noun (generic)
- kai-awase, Heian-period shell-matching game
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- contortion, distortion, warp, bend, skew
- kink (in one's character), twist
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- wise woman, clever woman
obsolete reading noun noun (generic) dated term Christianity
- sutra, holy writings, holy
- writings of a sage
- Bible
obsolete reading formal or literary term noun noun (generic) archaic
- battle, war
- weapons and armour, arms
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- wild flower
- paper flowers (esp. as decoration at a funeral)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- several lines (e.g. of flying birds), several streaks (e.g. of tears)
obsolete reading formal or literary term noun noun (generic)
- father