List: out-dated or obsolete kana usage
Readings no longer used in modern Japanese.
obsolete reading noun or verb acting prenominally adjective (generic)
- heavenly, celestial, divine
obsolete reading archaic Buddhism noun noun (generic)
- a weight
- temple supervisor
- town (of China)
obsolete reading archaic noun noun (generic) obsolete term
- secretary (lowest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryล system)
- shrine official (ranking below a negi)
obsolete reading noun noun (generic)
- Japanese bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia obovata)
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 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)