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List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage

Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.

Showing 461 - 470 of 738 words for the list out-dated or obsolete kana usage. #ok
歪めるゆがめるyugameru

obsolete reading  Ichidan verb  verb (generic)  transitive verb 

  • to bend, to curve, to warp, to distort, to disfigure
  • to bend (the truth), to falsify, to twist
  • to corrupt, to sully
足かせあしかせashikase

obsolete reading  rarely used kanji form  search-only kanji form  noun  noun (generic) 

  • fetters, shackles, hobbles, encumbrance, hindrance, burden, trap
針魚さよりsayori

gikun or jukujikun  obsolete reading  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

  • Japanese halfbeak (Hemiramphus sajori), stickleback
ひ孫ひまごhimago

obsolete reading  search-only kanji form  noun  noun (generic) 

  • great-grandchild
遁世とんせいtonsei

obsolete reading  rarely used kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb  Buddhism 

  • seclusion from the world
  • monastic seclusion
泥鰌どじょうdojou

obsolete reading  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

  • loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
  • weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), pond loach
二心ふたごころfutagokoro

obsolete reading  noun  noun (generic) 

  • duplicity, treachery, double-dealing
土竜もぐらmogura

gikun or jukujikun  obsolete reading  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

  • mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)
潜るもぐるmoguru

obsolete reading  JLPT N2  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  intransitive verb 

  • to dive (into or under water)
  • to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under
  • to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground
美妙びみょうbimyou

obsolete reading  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun  noun (generic) 

  • elegant, exquisite

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